RT Book, Section A1 Olson, Rob A1 Carroll, Brendan A1 Monks, Brian A2 Butler, Jennifer R. A2 Amin, Alpesh N. A2 Fitzmaurice, Laura E. A2 Kim, Christine M. SR Print(0) ID 1159980493 T1 Introduction to the OB/GYN Hospitalist Speciality T2 OB/GYN Hospital Medicine: Principles and Practice YR 2019 FD 2019 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259861697 LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159980493 RD 2024/10/08 AB OB/GYN hospitalists have mirrored the evolution of the first general hospitalists—the internal medicine and family practice physicians who focused their clinical care on the hospitalized patient in the early and mid-1990s. Wachter coined the term in an article published in August 19961 and the earliest form of the eventual Society of Hospitalist Medicine (SHM) met in April 1997. The SHM definition of general hospitalist was: “A physician who specializes in the practice of hospital medicine.”