December 2020
COVER STORY: Home for the holidays?
FEATURE: Covid round-up
COMMENTARY: Dual fatigue syndrome
WHAT WORKS: Meeting caregivers on the front lines
ONLINE ONLY: 2020. Damn
October/November 2020
COVER STORY: Is your local job market heating up or cooling off?
FEATURE: Maintaining your mental health during covid
ANALYSIS: Going virtual with covid hospital at home
WHAT WORKS: Physician peer support works
NEWS BRIEFS: The $16 trillion pandemic
September 2020
COVER STORY: Testing supplies: conserving a precious commodity
Q&A: Black voices in health care matter
WHAT WORKS: Battling the other epidemic: opioids
COMMENTARY: Doing tomorrow’s discharges today
PROGRESS NOTES: Pre- and post-covid couture
NEWS BRIEFS: CMS boosts payment for covid care
August 2020
COVER STORY: Staying safe
Q&A: Planning for disasters that come in twos
WHAT WORKS: Physician wellness takes on new urgency
NEWS BRIEFS: Inpatient volumes continue to rebound
July 2020
COVER STORY: PPE
COMMENTARY: Charge forward with change management
WHAT WORKS: Speeding up research
SOUND OFF: How covid has changed practice
NEWS BRIEFS: Patient satisfaction becomes patient appreciation
June 2020
COVER STORY: Your disappearing census
COMMENTARY: When healers suffer
SOUND OFF: Coronavirus lessons learned
PROGRESS NOTES: The new heroes in the hospital
NEWS BRIEFS: Covid’s impact on medical training
May 2020
COVER STORY: Stories from the covid front lines
FEATURE: Should you steer clear of your own family?
Q&A: Helping pediatric hospitals plan for the surge
COMMENTARY: A proposal: hospitalist “hotshots”
PROGRESS NOTES: Stuck between “then” and “now”
SOUND OFF: How might coronavirus change hospital medicine?
April 2020
COVER STORY: Coronavirus: It’s here
FEATURE: Septic shock: diagnosis and management
ANALYSIS: Hospitalist ROI: What do C-suite execs really think?
Q&A: How to improve respiratory rate readings
BY THE NUMBERS: Social admissions and prolonged services
WHAT WORKS: Tiered safety huddles target zero harm
POLL: Bonuses and incentives
NEWS BRIEFS: Coronavirus viability
March 2020
COVER STORY: Note bloat: problems with cut and paste
FEATURE: Communication skills to mitigate conflict
BY THE NUMBERS: What’s your payer mix?
Q&A: “C. diff walks into a hospital … “
WHAT WORKS: Peer coaching can relieve physician burnout
CAREER: Letters of intent: Should you sign?
PROGRESS NOTES: Hospital medicine conference 2020
POLL: A look at IMG hospitalists
NEWS BRIEFS: Sharp rise seen in sepsis rates, costs
February 2020
COVER STORY: Telemedicine: How one service may lead to (many) others
Q&A: Comanagement falls short in hip fracture patients
WHAT WORKS: The race to identify sepsis early
PROGRESS NOTES: It takes a whole hospital…
POLL: Who’s working nights and weekends?
NEWS BRIEFS: Bad news for Vitamin C cocktail
January 2020
COVER STORY: Crafting the best comanagement agreements
FEATURE: Treating inpatient lung infections: the latest recommendations
BY THE NUMBERS: Stress test on economic trends
WHAT WORKS: Tough conversations: What to say when sharing a bad prognosis
COMMENTARY: Surviving physician staffing shortages