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Northside Hospital
Lawrenceville, Georgia

Inpatient Palliative Care Physician - Lawrenceville, GA (Metro Atlanta)

Palliative CareIncludes callNo weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.

Responsibilities

Join Northside Hospital as a Full-time Inpatient Palliative Care physician at our beautiful Northside Gwinnett Hospital campus.

As a nationally recognized leader in multiple specialties, Northside Hospital works to collaborate with the best of providers, to help us continue to advance our model of high quality and compassionate care into the future with a passion for Excellence, Innovation, Community, and Teamwork.

Northside Hospital Gwinnett

Northside Hospital Gwinnett has undergone a $42 million expansion, including the addition of a new 15-story medical tower and numerous new medical office buildings. With continuous growth, we are expanding our physician team and offering the opportunity to practice within one of Georgia’s most respected health systems.

Northside Hospital Gwinnett is recognized for its commitment to patient safety, clinical excellence, and exceptional patient satisfaction. Our collaborative, multidisciplinary environment allows physicians to work alongside highly skilled specialists dedicated to delivering comprehensive, innovative patient care.

Position Overview

Mon-Fri Schedule

  • Comprehensive team, including chaplain, social workers and APP's.
  • Light call schedule with collegial team.
  • Ability to precept IM & FM residents within our GME Program
  • Position Benefits
  • Excellent Guaranteed Compensation
  • Medical, Dental, Life Insurance
  • Retirement Plans- 403B, 457M, Fully Funded Pension
  • Annual CME Stipened
  • Annual Cell-phone Stipend
  • Relocation Stipend available (if applicable)

Requirements

  • Internal Medicine Residency completion preferred
  • Family Medicine Residency completion considered with existing palliative care experience
  • Palliative Care Fellowship Required
  • Board Eligibility/Board Certification
  • Active GA license or the ability to obtain one

Why Choose Northside Hospital?

Northside is so much more than just a hospital. It’s an extensive network of state-of-the-art facilities staffed with skilled, caring professionals who are dedicated to the health and wellness of the communities we serve. Excellent compensation and benefits package available.

Northside Hospital System Includes

  • Five not-for-profit, acute-care hospitals, located in Atlanta, Cumming, Canton, Duluth and Lawrenceville
  • Over 300 Northside Hospital-affiliated outpatient centers and medical office buildings throughout the Atlanta Region
  • 3,900 providers on staff and more than 24,000 employees
  • Northside serves more than 4 million patients annually.
  • Nationally recognized expertise in Cancer Care, Maternity Services, Radiology, Surgery and Women’s Health.
  • Northside is recognized by US Newsweek as the World’s Best Hospital, Best Workplace for Diversity/Culture, and Best Workplace for Women
  • Contact Morgan.Dudkowski@Northside.com

Qualifications

Requirements

  • IM or FM Residency Completion (IM preferred)
  • Palliative Care Fellowship Required
  • Board Eligibility/Board Certification (Required after 5 years of practice)
  • Active GA license or the ability to obtain one

Work Hours

8 a - 5 p

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Multidisciplinary collaborationResident precepting

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Inpatient Palliative Care Physician - Lawrenceville, GA (Metro Atlanta) at Northside Hospital a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Palliative Care — ranked against 97 active Palliative Care listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Palliative Care — Physician Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 6.4
Better work-life than 80% of Palliative Care listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 97 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • Includes call

Living in Lawrenceville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$340k
Typical market rent
$1,895/mo
Residents’ average commute
32 min
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Northside Hospital

Hospitals and Health Care
Atlanta, GA
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, Dental, Life Insurance
Retirement Plans - 403B, 457M, Fully Funded Pension
Annual CME Stipend
Annual Cell-phone Stipend
Relocation Stipend available