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 ...

Ramy Sedhom, MD, a medical oncologist and a palliative care physician at Penn Medicine Princeton Health in Plainsboro, N.J., will always wonder if prior authorization refusals led to his patient’s ...

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 ...

Imagine entering the front door of your hospital to start your busy workday as a hospitalist. The smart hospital, with its smart technology, recognizes you by “reading” your name badge via radio ...

A 74-year-old frail man with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease is admitted for severe community-acquired pneumonia. On hospital day four, the nurse reports a new sacral wound ...

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 ...

How do U.S. hospitalists find their way into international hospital medicine and global health care—and what have they learned on the journey? Several hospitalist leaders in global health care ...

Hospitalists who decide to pursue additional board certifications to broaden their field of practice seldom take the same path. Regardless of whether they chose this road for a clinical interest or to ...

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 ...

A 77-year-old woman with malnutrition, who is undergoing chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer, is being treated with intravenous ceftriaxone and vancomycin through a peripherally inserted central ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

AI has been employed in multiple studies in medicine to uncover hidden disease patterns within highly diverse clinical datasets. AI models can be used to identify, characterize, and predict diseases, ...