Emily is a 35-year-old woman with no substantial medical history who presents to the emergency department (ED) due to severe headaches that have worsened in recent weeks. She also experiences ...
When, in their classic 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, announced the emergence of the hospitalist concept, they defined it in terms of doctors ...
In this high-yield, clinically focused session, Steven L. Cohn, MD, MACP, FRCP, SFHM, professor emeritus at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, one of the leading experts in ...
Between 2012 and 2019, the field of hospital medicine experienced rapid growth, expanding by 50%. 1 From 2019 to 2021 alone, there was an additional 10% increase, signaling continued growth over the ...
Among their many responsibilities, hospitalists typically rank patient care as their number one priority and the education of medical students, residents, and fellows as a critical number two. As ...
Now in its 13th year, Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) continues to incentivize hospitals to do a better job of coordinating the care of patients they are discharging to ...
Every incentive counts when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. In particular, today’s hospitalists view funding for continuing medical education (CME) and getting paid time off (PTO) as ...
Foreign medical graduates (FMGs), or international medical graduates (IMGs) represent an important section of the U.S. healthcare workforce. An IMG is a physician who received a basic medical degree ...
With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps ...
As a harbinger of the future, precision medicine (or personalized medicine) first came to light in 1999 when specific genetic markers and therapeutics were identified. In 2015, it became a national ...
An 8-year-old girl presents with five days of worsening cough. She has a temperature of 38.6 °C, a respiratory rate of 38, a blood pressure of 85/45, and a heart rate of 120. Pulse oximetry reveals an ...
Our first and foremost duty in healthcare is to provide our patients with compassionate and equitable care. Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and ...
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