Learn something new every day, Interventional pulmonologist.
I appears to me that makes sense to have an Interventional Pulmonologist within a Pulmonology Clinic or health system so the regular pulmonologist isn't torn between having to take days out of the week to do procedures in the hospital (hospital days) and then therefore have limited days seeing patients in the office (office days). My thoughts.
A good few times when I called to make appointments with the the local pulmonologists
I was told the doctor will be in hospital. I would imagine some doctors would "scream" if they couldn't have hospital days away from the office and were stuck there all week long seeing patients in the manner they see them for in the office...I wonder???
Wow, per research there are Interventional Doctors in many fields of medical care, including gastroenterologists for example. I am really glad to have heard this term and like what they are trained to do, highly specialized in a particular field of medicine related to minimally invasive procedures. It does appear they would therefore relieve the regular doctor so that they have more time to see patients in the office.
Now that has me curious and I will now be asking about an Interventional Doctor when it appears it would be good to know if the system or clinic has one when seeing a particular type of doctor.
Glad to read all the comments and info regarding this subject.
Barbara