Continuity in Discontinuity There’s an irony to being a hospitalist in oncology. Our patients often have complex, ...

Drs. Poonacha and Chamoun outline why it's advantageous for hospitalists to be involved in hospital contract negotiations.

Physician editor Dr. Weijen Chang talks about how the changes to Medicaid will impact hospitalists, patients, and healthcare.

Article Carrying On the Timeless Mission of Medicine June 13, 2025. It’s easy to think of the times we live in as unprecedented—for each of us, it is.

Most working hospitalists will see cancer patients regularly on their hospital rounds since it’s the main underlying condition for many hospital admissions—whether for the disease itself, side effects ...

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...

It is important to keep in mind that the sensitivities and specificities can differ among different species of organisms. According to a 2011 meta-analysis published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1 ...

Case Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

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 ...

Ratio of leadership FTE to physician hospitalists FTE. If my pun has already put you off, you can avoid reading the rest of the piece and go to the 2020 SoHM to look at pages 52 (Table 3.7c), 121 ...

More than 10 years ago this magazine published an article by Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM, a pioneer of hospital medicine and co-founder of the Society of Hospital Medicine, warning of the hazards of ...