5. If I’m hospitalized, will you be seeing me in the hospital? What is your coverage on weekends? These services are an essential part of being a good doctor and most patients around the world expect to receive them. In the United States, despite physicians’ high salaries, many practices have outsourced them. You don’t want a doctor whose off-hour backup advice is to go to your local urgent care center or a hospital emergency room with which he has no contact.
