âBeing hospitalized can be a scary time for people, and they may not always understand whatâs going on,â says William Atchley, a hospitalist in Norfolk, Virginia. Hospitalists aim to reduce the confusion of a hospital stay and guide patients through their treatment. Although they are physicians, hospitalists donât have an office practice. Instead, they serve as the single point of contact for a patient moving through the hospital, from admittance to dischargeâand beyond. What they do
The mid ocean ridge systems are the largest geological features on the planet. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mostly underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean that runs from 87Â°N-about 333km south of the North Pole-to subantarctic Bourvet island at 54Â°S.ost of the ridge system is under water but forms land as a set of volcanic islands of varying size that run the length of the Atlantic Ocean. These islands are: 1  Jan Mayen (Norway). 2  Iceland. 3  Azores (Portugal). 4  St Paulâs rock (Brazil). 5  Ascension Island (UK).
At the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (and in other areas), material from the upper mantle rises through the faults between oceanic plates to form new crust as the plates move away from each other, a phenomenon first observed as continental drift.he destruction of oceanic crust occurs at subduction zones where oceanic crust is forced under either continental crust or oceanic crust. Today, the Atlantic basin is actively spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Only a small portion of the oceanic crust produced in the Atlantic is subducted.