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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		The hospitalist turns 20
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:03
	Publish Date:		2016-09-17 19:00:00
	Description:		It’s been twenty years since two University of California, San Francisco physicians proposed a new kind of a doctor – the hospitalist. This is basically a generalist who specializes in inpatient care. Dr. Steve Pantilat was hired as a UCSF hospitalist in 1996, and three years later founded one of the nation’s first hospital-based palliative care programs at UCSF. We asked what motivated him. "I had this longstanding interest in ethics and what I liked about palliative care is that it took the ethics and really brought it to the care of patients in a very real way." Pantilat explains that physicians caring for the very sick were often not trained to talk to their patients and their families about what decisions they wanted to make. "In palliative care, what we say is “let’s help you do that”; we have expertise in this. I didn’t even know that it was called palliative care, but then I realized it actually has a name, what I liked to do and ever since then, that’s been the focus of my career."
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