Commentary on association between practice setting and pediatric hospitalist career satisfaction; observations from two very satisfied community hospitalists.

We applaud Dr Pane and colleagues for continuing to investigate the question of career satisfaction for pediatric hospitalists. The publication of these fi ndings is timely as we discuss the future of pediatric hospital medicine as a subspecialty. How we train, recruit, and nurture future pediatric hospitalists will determine the success of our fi eld, and career satisfaction is a key issue in building the discipline. However, we would like to add some observations regarding the current study from a perspective outside of the academic medical center.