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 ...

As a harbinger of the future, precision medicine (or personalized medicine) first came to light in 1999 when specific genetic markers and therapeutics were identified. In 2015, it became a national ...

A 45-year-old hospitalist, a familiar face in the system for the past decade, tragically took his own life. His colleagues and staff admired him, and he always had a pleasant working personality.

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 ...

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.

Understanding the complexities of health information and traversing the often obtuse, poorly organized, broader healthcare system can be difficult for even the most knowledgeable and educated ...

The language of equality in America’s founding was never truly embraced, resulting in a painful legacy of slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality inherited by all generations. However, for as ...

“We’re not going to bore you!” Dr. Stephany, director of physician-provider organization support, clinical academic departments, and the leadership center for physicians at Children’s Mercy Kansas ...

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

Hospitals nationwide face significant capacity constraints in emergency departments. High hospitalization rates can have a ripple effect, leading to long wait times, frequent diversion of patients to ...

The overall prevalence of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is 0.1% and is more common in young adults aged 18 to 39 years old. However, in patients with cannabis use disorder, the prevalence of ...

During my medicine residency rounds, my attending at a Veterans Affairs hospital stated: “Remember Swati, there are three simple steps to gain your patients’ trust. The three questions they have are: ...