Meaning of surgicalist | Babel Free

Definitions

A surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.

US

Examples

“The two are being hired as surgicalists, a new term coined from the more common title surgical hospitalist. Both mean the same thing: doctors hired by hospitals to treat patients full time, replacing local physicians who work at the hospital on an “on-call” basis.”

“We now have two new specialists that are growing in numbers, the hospitalist and the surgicalist. Knowing everything about hospital care but having no experience with office and outpatient care presents a new set of problems for the patient.”

“You know, the surgicalist can take care of the appendicitis and drain simple abscesses and stuff like that.”

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