July/August 2021
Opening Doors for Women in Medicine
An attending hospitalist reflects on the skills needed to transform care, impact patients’ lives, work collaboratively across teams, and grow as a clinician and leader. Read more here.
Covid News Updates
Check back often as we continue to post timely updates on COVID-19.
Things hospitalists do for no reason. What's the right diuretic for heart failure...
A line team takes charge of placing lines in the covid ICU
WITH COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS dropping nationally and on the west coast, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has just put one of its most successful pandemic innovations on...
Hospitalists: front and center in vaccination efforts
WHILE THE EFFORT to vaccinate Americans against covid has been chaotic for many, one health system in Florida has had a very different experience....
Compensation
Raises and subsidies are back on the table
WHILE HARDIK VORA, MD, MPH, will remember many things about working through the pandemic, here's one of the better memories: During his 12 years...
Progress Notes
A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital wards. See all Progress Notes here.
Published in the March/April 2021 issue of Today’s Hospitalist
Satisfaction/Burnout
Making sure clinicians stay connected
A PSYCHIATRIST in Minneapolis, Cristina Sophia Albott, MD, has long done research into stress and trauma. But early last year, Dr. Albott and some...
Past Issue
Editor's Picks
Compensation & Career Guide
Patient encounters: daytime hospitalists vs. nocturnists
How many patient encounters do hospitalists see per shift—and what number do they think is reasonable? According to data from the 2019 Today’s Hospitalist...
Career
Recruiting? Make sure you hire right
AS HOSPITALIST GROUPS try to emerge from the pandemic, recruiting is again heating up.
According to a presentation at this year's Society of Hospital Medicine...
Clinical
Tough choices: the right diuretic for heart failure and the best...
IT'S ONE OF THE MOST popular offerings at each Society of Hospital Medicine annual meeting, and for good reason. The "things we do for...
Coding
Billing options for triage only?
WHILE IT SEEMS like covid has been the only topic of conversation for the past 18 months, hospitalists have been busy providing plenty of...
Career Center
Recruiting? Make sure you hire right
AS HOSPITALIST GROUPS try to emerge from the pandemic, recruiting is again heating up.
According to a presentation at this year's Society of Hospital Medicine...