September 2021
Team up to treat opioid addiction
Hospitalists can improve care even without the expertise of an addiction medicine consult service.
Frozen hospitals powered through
When Uri hit Texas, hospitalists had to overcome novel challenges.
Virtual rounding beyond the pandemic
Hospitals have moved to hybrids of remote and in-person rounds.
The inpatient vs. observation dilemma
A bundle of interventions decreased use of observation status.
Archaic
Take this quiz and see how well you understand terms that predate the precursor to ICD.
Learning to accept uncertainty in medicine
Physicians with low tolerance of uncertainty were more likely to burn out, a study found.
Consulting POCUS to increase efficiency
This tool holds potential to speed care for patients requiring subspecialists' attention.
Opioids and extreme weather, but also good news
This issue describes how hospitalists teamed up to treat opioid use disorder and the Texas freeze, as well advancements in virtual rounds and point-of-care ultrasound.
Autoimmune hepatitis with rash and diarrhea
A patient with hypertension presented with one month of increasing abdominal girth.
Critical illness myopathy/polyneuropathy
The manifestations of CIM and CIP overlap, and it can be difficult to distinguish between the two conditions.
Tuberculosis presenting with gastrointestinal symptoms
The patient's chief symptom was watery diarrhea for the past 10 days.