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January 3, 2013
2012: the not-so-health(y) news
It's here again, time to take stock of the year just ended. Here's the big health news in the year...
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September 20, 2012
Of donkeys and kings
Let's indulge in a little fable. Once upon a time, there was a king of a little kingdom. It was...
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August 16, 2012
Health care isn't cheesecake
At first, I wasn’t going to comment. The topic had been thoroughly discussed in the pediatric hospitalist listserv—and after reading...
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June 27, 2012
Lessons learned
We're continuing to implement our new EMR, with the go-live at our main hospital scheduled for November. In the year...
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May 15, 2012
There is an app for that
You know you are old if you remember the days when your clinical acumen was in direct proportion to the...
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March 29, 2012
Too much specialization?
So I am patiently waiting for an MRI result, when they tell me the radiologist has left the building.
“What? I...
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March 8, 2012
Hurry up and wait
The New York Times recently ran a fascinating article about procrastinating. In it, experts including productivity consultants and psychologists—people...
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January 26, 2012
The "patient experience": Is it patient pandering?
I’ve been seeing a lot written recently about the “patient experience.” A recent blog on one of my Linkedin groups...
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January 18, 2012
Good old days
While not quite as far back as the Cretaceous period, there once was a time when the primary care doctor...
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December 30, 2011
Some perspective
"A Piece of My Mind" in JAMA and like editorials in other medical journals often serve as the great “keeping...
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December 21, 2011
Occupy Health Care!
Last night, I went into my call room and realized it was occupied.
There was a sprightly girl of about 20...
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December 7, 2011
"A vote for DeLue is a vote for you!"
I have been a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine since 2000, the year I finished residency. I...
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Erik DeLue, MD
Erik DeLue, MD, examines the challenges of running and reinventing a hospitalist program.
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