surgicalist

English

Etymology

Blend of surgical +‎ hospitalist

Noun

surgicalist (plural surgicalists)

1. (US) A surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.
   • 2005 October 27, Alan Wechsler, “These doctors will work 24/7”, in The Times Union:

     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.

   • 2011, Dr. Lowell Fisher, Marcus Welby is Dead: Now Who is Your Advocate?, →ISBN, page 62:

     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.

   • 2013, Martin A. Croce, David H. Livingston, Frederick A. Luchette, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma 75th Anniversary 1938-2013, →ISBN, page 459:

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