The specific causes of neurological problems vary, but can include genetic disorders, congenital abnormalities or disorders, infections, lifestyle or environmental health problems including malnutrition, and brain injury, spinal cord injury or nerve injury.
Family physicians can choose to be dedicated inpatient physicians, or hospitalists, on a full-time or rotating basis, depending on the demand and level of inpatient care needed. More than 66% of family physicians choose to have hospital privileges.
Abt Associates Inc. 43 Overall, 46 percent of physicians reported that hospitalists were used within the general medicineservice of their hospital (Table 3.10). This number was considerably higher for critical carepulmonologists (67%) than for pulmonologists (42%).