Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine credentials from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (class of 2007) back Gan Terence M MD, an inpatient-focused Scripps physician listed on the Scripps Mercy Hospital campus at 4077 Fifth Ave in Hillcrest. Hospitalist work covers admission history and physicals, sepsis bundles, acute kidney injury management, CHF exacerbations, and atrial fibrillation rate-versus-rhythm decisions, with discharge planning that hands rehab-eligible patients directly to Scripps Mercy San Diego Outpatient Physical Rehabilitation for post-discharge PT continuity. The XiMED Hospitalists physician group provides the internal medicine inpatient service infrastructure across the Scripps Memorial La Jolla and Scripps Mercy San Diego campuses. Ventilator weans, complex wound care, and prolonged IV antibiotic courses that exceed acute-care length-of-stay limits are transferred to Select Specialty Hospital - San Diego, the long-term acute care hospital embedded inside the Scripps Mercy footprint. Discharge coordination with outpatient primary care follows a standard SBAR handoff to the patient's PCP on the day of release. The highest-acuity work involves ICU step-down patients carrying multi-organ dysfunction, delirium, and polypharmacy that demand medication reconciliation at every bedside round and family goals-of-care conversations before transition off the acute service.