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11 City University of New York-Lehman College, Bronx, NY, USA.
Abstract:
In recent years, quickly discharging patients has become a collective goal at hospitals, as excessive medical workups and extended hospital stays have been associated with unnecessary healthcare spending. Physicians, however, frequently encounter numerous barriers when trying to discharge patients. Presenting ethnographic and interview data collected from September 2010 to September 2013, this paper examines one of the most difficult discharge cases physicians encounter on the internal medicine service at a U.S. teaching hospital: resistant patients-patients and families who refuse to leave the hospital. As physicians try to discharge resistant patients, they are met with conflicting financial and professional incentives. Drawing from the sociological literature on professions, managerialism, and consumerism, I analyze the strategies physicians develop to manage these difficult discharge cases.
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