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I run a house call practice, have a Medicare patient that is blind, on dialysis, no vehicle, diabetic, PAD, neuropathy, smokes 1ppd, uses cocaine, history of multiple toe amps. I see him and he has swollen, malodorous, toe with ulcer with positive probe to bone. I call hospitalist who is glad to admit him. I order vascular consult, MRI, infectious disease consult, then on the second full day in hospital the hospitalist says the hospital administration is going to call me to complain that...

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