Upstate Medical Practice Leading Country in Obstetrics Hospitalists

By Mike Switzer

Published June 3, 2015 at 5:11 AM EDT

Upstate Medical Practice Leading Country in Obstetrics Hospitalists A physician who specializes in delivering care to patients in a hospital is known as a hospitalist. Back in 2006, an Upstate medical practice decided to form the first hospitalist program in the country dedicated to obstetrics and is now the largest. Mike Switzer interviews David Swain, executive chair and co-founder of OB Hospitalist Group based in Mauldin, SC.

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Mike Switzer

After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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