There’s a special kind of delirium that descends sometime between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., when caffeine metabolism has stalled, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Something didn’t seem quite right. The person in the hooded sweatshirt standing near the entrance looked suspicious to respiratory therapist Betty Collins as she entered the newborn nursery on the ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

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 ...

In America, 4%-11% of hospitalized patients have OUD. Hospitalized patients with OUD often experience stigma surrounding their disease, and many inpatient clinicians lack knowledge regarding the care ...

When patients with AUD are hospitalized, they have often already received a standard IV solution (100 mg of thiamine, 1 mg of folate, 1-2 g of magnesium, and a multivitamin dissolved in saline or ...

Most hospitalists’ training likely included caring for patients in the ambulatory clinic, urgent care, and ED settings. One of the most important aspects of medical training is deciding which of the ...

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 ...

It was very painful. I felt that I had planted an apple orchard and other men who had gathered the harvest stood at the wall, laughing at me.” Dr. Werner Forssmann said these words toward the end of ...

First, a disclaimer: I am not an attorney, and this is not intended to be legal advice. Any specific questions or concerns you may have should be directed to your legal counsel. The recommendations in ...