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 ...

Pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) programs with nocturnists have more than doubled in recent years.¹ Consequently, more hospitalists face the hazards of overnight work, including sleep-related... Case ...

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...

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Our first and foremost duty in healthcare is to provide our patients with compassionate and equitable care. Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and ...

Dr. Sullivan and Ms. Giudice presented on Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders (SSRD) and best care practices for patients with these complex disorders at PHM 2023. The presenters opened with the ...

A 45-year-old hospitalist, a familiar face in the system for the past decade, tragically took his own life. His colleagues and staff admired him, and he always had a pleasant working personality.

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 ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

Clinical question: Does oral transitional antibiotic therapy have similar outcomes to intravenous (IV)-only antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis (IE)? Background: There has been a ...

A 23-year-old male with opioid use disorder (OUD) with intravenous use is hospitalized with a fever and several weeks of back pain. He is diagnosed with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Understanding the complexities of health information and traversing the often obtuse, poorly organized, broader healthcare system can be difficult for even the most knowledgeable and educated ...