I was assigned to Medicine Team 6 (MT6)—our residency program’s only inpatient family medicine service. It’s not just another ...

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

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

Article Finding My Path in Inpatient Medicine: A Family Medicine Resident’s Reflection June 25, 2025. My name is Mehran, and I’m currently transitioning into my second year as a family medicine ...

Physician advisors and hospitalists bring indispensable value to contract negotiations between hospital systems and payers. Traditionally, contracting has been managed primarily by finance and ...

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

As previously mentioned, clinicians may subtract 3 to 8 mm Hg from the pVBG pCO 2 value to estimate the ABG pCO 2. 3 However, data supporting this mathematical correction are weak. Comparisons of ...

Dr. Chadha is an associate professor of medicine, advanced development director of internal medicine, medical director for physician development in the division of hospital medicine, and associate ...

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 ...

Change is Hard: 5 Practical Tips to Leading Change from Rounds to the Board Room September 23, 2022. PHM 2024 Session Recap This session, presented by Brittany Hunter, MD, and Cynthia Castiglioni, MD, ...