Dr. Beatrice Edith Lai, DO

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Get to know Hospitalist Dr. Beatrice Edith Lai, who serves patients in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Well versed in core internal medicine hospital-based procedures, Dr. Lai is a hospitalist working at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak in Michigan.

Beaumont, Royal Oak opened on Jan. 24, 1955 as a 238-bed community hospital. Today, the hospital is a 1,131-bed major academic and referral center with Level I adult trauma and Level II pediatric trauma designation. 

The doctor’s acclaimed career in medicine began after she earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in 2017. She then went on to complete her residency in internal medicine at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak in 2020.

In direct affiliation with her industry, Dr. Lai is a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the American Medical Association.

Hospital medicine is a medical specialty that exists in some countries as a branch of internal or family medicine, dealing with the care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Physicians whose primary professional focus is caring for hospitalized patients only while they are in the hospital are called hospitalists.

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