4 days ago · The Hospitalist is the monthly news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine relevant to hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical residents, and health care administrators.

Aug 1, 2024 · Dr. Williams quickly progressed with physical therapy from being bedbound to using a wheelchair, a walker, and then a cane. He returned to the teaching service at Barnes in September and was working seven-day blocks again on the floors by December.

4 days ago · Charumathi Raghu Subramanian, MD, a hospitalist and second-year clinical informatics fellow at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, remembers a patient in her care who was wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), a little disc that adheres to the arm, where a tiny, embedded filament measures, with the help of a smartphone app, interstitial blood ...

Mar 30, 2022 · T he term hospitalist was coined in 1996 in a New England Journal of Medicine article written by Dr. Robert Wachter—often considered the father of the field. The need was clear: hospitals wanted a physician dedicated to the care of inpatients on a 24/7 basis. Hospitals and patients have benefited tremendously, and hospital medicine has become the fastest-growing medical specialty in U.S ...

The Hospitalist monthly news magazine is an official publication of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine. It reaches more than 35,000 hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical residents, and health care administrators interested in the practice and business of hospital medicine.

Dec 2, 2024 · Change is Hard: 5 Practical Tips to Leading Change from Rounds to the Board Room December 2, 2024. PHM 2024 Session Recap This session, presented by Brittany Hunter, MD, and Cynthia Castiglioni, MD, MS, was a high-yield quick hit that gave practical solutions on how to implement meaningful change...

Jan 1, 2025 · For Meredith R. Hickson, MD, MSc, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Michigan State University and partner in the pediatric hospital medicine group at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, both in Grand Rapids, her journey …

4 days ago · These include medical errors and the search for solutions (“Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes,” in 2005); rollout of the electronic health record (“The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age,” in 2015); and, coming up in about 18 months, the place for …

Apr 1, 2022 · Managing the Long-term Physical Effects of Being a Hospitalist April 1, 2022. Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, MHM, age 64, has been a pioneer of hospital medicine, a physician leader, and a frontline clinician since helping to found …

Feb 16, 2022 · First came the bed shortages. Then came the staff shortages. The vaccine shortages soon followed. In the hospitals across New York City where David Alfandre, MD, MSPH is a health care ethicist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Ethics in Health Care and an associate professor of medicine and population health at the NYU School of Medicine, the last two years have ...