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 ...

Most working hospitalists will see cancer patients regularly on their hospital rounds since it’s the main underlying condition for many hospital admissions—whether for the disease itself, side effects ...

High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), as the name suggests, is a training modality that involves short periods or intervals of intense work followed by intervals of rest/recovery (see sidebar for ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 38-year-old construction worker without significant medical history presents following witnessed syncope at her job, after standing for at least 2 hours on a particularly warm day. She reported an ...

Diagnostic evaluation should be guided by the likelihood of the disease (i.e., the pretest probability) (Figure 1). Begin with a review of the patient’s signs and symptoms, medical and family history, ...

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.

Hospital Medicine has been a growing career choice among combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) physicians with an increasing number of resident graduates entering the field in recent ...

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 ...