Hospital Medicine

To use or not to use, that is the dilemma being faced by a lot of hospitalist programs when it comes to employing "physician extenders" in hospital medicine.

Matthew Holt is a ubiquitous presence in the online world of Health 2.0. He is the proprietor of The Health Care Blog, essential reading that promises to tell you everything you always wanted to know about the health care system.

There is a significant impact on hospitalist practice, as more and more in-patients are being treated by hospitalists- not only internal medicine in-patients, but also patients belonging to medical sub-specialties including cardiology and nephrology.

Doug Farrago, MD, is a full-time practicing physician in Auburn, ME, and the founder of the Placebo Journal (www.placebojournal.com), which is meant to "empower physicians with a skill that is sorely lacking â€" humor."

If you were keeping up with the news at all this week, you know that hospitals have been under recent, intense scrutiny with regard to patient security and offsetting medical errors. Specifically, the healthcare industry's focus on medical privacy and compliance has led to a lack of awareness of the seriousness of patient identity theft.

When it comes to healthcare information technology (HIT), emergency medicine physicians are in-the-know, simply because they have to be. In order to maintain accuracy under intense crisis situations..

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Seemingly overnight the hospitalist movement has blossomed from a concept to an established field in American medicine. The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) estimates there are approximately...

Ana Gutierrez was a 52-year-old Hispanic woman who presented to a teaching hospital emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain and a fever. She spoke little English. The emergency medicine...