A hospitalized client is complaining of abdominal pain that has developed since admission. The nurse says, "I am going to call the hospitalist." How should the client interpret this statement?
1. The nurse is going to call the medical intern to assess the client.
2. The nurse is going to call the client's physician's on-call group.
3. The nurse is going to call a physician who cares for inpatients.
4. The nurse is going to call the emergency department and request that a physician see this client.
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Rationale 1: The medical intern is not a hospitalist.
Rationale 2: The physician's on-call group is likely a group of physicians from the same office or organization of physicians with office practices. They are not hospitalists.
Rationale 3: A hospitalist provides care only to hospital inpatients.
Rationale 4: Emergency department physicians are not the same as hospitalists.
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