Recent Entries
February 3, 2010
The death of the doctors' lounge
I have practiced medicine long enough to remember when a doctors' lounge was filled with, well, doctors. In the late...
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January 22, 2010
Righting all of hospitals' wrongs
Alas, "The Happy Hospitalist" moniker is taken in the hospitalist blogosphere, but no one has yet laid claim...
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January 20, 2010
Scope-of-practice creep
The December cover story of Today’s Hospitalist on admitting intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients confirms a trend that I’m witnessing...
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January 14, 2010
Reconsidering patients who go AMA
The call comes in from the floor: “Mrs. Jones is leaving AMA. Can you come sign the paperwork?” As hospitalists,...
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January 7, 2010
"Drop your highlighters!"
I am recertifying for my internal medicine boards in three months, so I signed up for an Arora Board Review...
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December 31, 2009
Cheer up, you could have been a lawyer!
Cheer up? Traditionally, prime bragging rights for parents have included daughters or sons who grew up to be doctors, lawyers...
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December 22, 2009
2009: Changing jobs, and the other side of the stethoscope
I tried to resist the urge to write an end of the year column, but since it snowed so much...
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December 7, 2009
A hospitalist’s letter to Santa
Dear Santa,
I have tried really hard to be a good hospitalist this year. I've sat on committees, completed all of...
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December 4, 2009
Going to the dark side
I have thoroughly enjoyed working as a day-time hospitalist although I frequently worked nights, mainly as a moonlighter. Having experienced...
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November 30, 2009
Getting down with OPPE
Have you heard the Joint Commission’s newest slogan? "Are you down with OPPE? If you're not, you should be." I...
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November 20, 2009
Short honeymoon
Someone complained about my handwriting. I've been working here only two months and already someone complained about the swirly, pointy,...
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November 19, 2009
Hospitalists and patient satisfaction: Another value-added metric?
I just returned from the 2009 Press Ganey client conference in Washington where the speakers ranged from Newt Gingrich...
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Meet Our Bloggers
Erik DeLue, MD
Erik DeLue, MD, examines the challenges of running and reinventing a hospitalist program.
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Ruben J. Nazario, MD
Ruben J. Nazario, MD, a pediatric hospitalist at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children in Falls Church, Va, gives his take on pediatric hospital medicine.
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Sandeep Sachdeva, MD
A hospitalist for 10 years, Sandeep Sachdeva, MD, practices at Seattle's Swedish Medical Center.
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Robert Harrington, Jr., MD
Robert Harrington, Jr., MD, writes about his travels in hospital medicine from his dual perspective as both a physician executive and a practicing locum tenens hospitalist.
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O'Neil J. Pyke, MD
O’Neil J. Pyke, MD, is a practicing physician with nearly a decade of hospitalist management and clinical experience.
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