Being named in a medical malpractice lawsuit is a daunting experience, but understanding the legal process and key risk ...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections have risen significantly post-COVID-19, presenting with both respiratory and increasing non-respiratory symptoms, including dermatologic and neurologic manifestations.

With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps ...

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...

Nearly 13 years after the release of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report To Err Is Human, which called national attention to the rate of preventable errors in U.S. hospitals and galvanized the ...

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 ...

If my pun has already put you off, you can avoid reading the rest of the piece and go to the 2020 SoHM to look at pages 52 (Table 3.7c), 121 (Table 4.7c), and 166 (Table 5.7c). It has a newly added ...

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 ...

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.

Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

The beginning of a new year is often a time of reflection and introspection as people make plans for the coming year and for their futures. Last month we enjoyed hearing from seasoned hospitalists, ...

When patients with AUD are hospitalized, they have often already received a standard IV solution (100 mg of thiamine, 1 mg of folate, 1-2 g of magnesium, and a multivitamin dissolved in saline or ...