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Step up: Leading in a time of crisis and uncertainty
Initially, I thought I was being forced to see the COVID-19 patients because I was one of the youngest in the department and the unlucky hospital medicine fellow.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/step-up.htm
15 Nov 2020
Living in fear
As I was leaving the building that day, I made a greater effort to stay away from others so as not to infect them, but for the first time I also felt ashamed, as if I had failed everyone around me.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/living-in-fear.htm
15 Nov 2020
A rural COVID-19 response
As we feared, Buena Vista County, Iowa, made headlines in late May and early June with the dubious honor of having the highest new COVID-19 case rate in the nation.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/a-rural-response.htm
15 Nov 2020
Telemonitoring after COVID-19 care
Patients who had been tested for SARS-CoV-2 were called by clinicians after discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/success-story-telemonitoring-after-covid-19-care.htm
15 Nov 2020
Hospitalists' pandemic strategies, post-ICU care, physician parenting, and more
The October issue of ACP Hospitalist reports on innovations that hospitalists developed to respond to a variety of problems posed by the pandemic, care challenges before and after ICU stays, politics, parenting, and other topics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/21/2.htm
21 Oct 2020
Political conversations with patients
Questions about politics are inevitable in clinics and hospitals during this election season.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/political-conversations-with-patients.htm
15 Oct 2020
Pandemic parenting as a physician
Two hospitalists address the challenges of being a doctor and parent.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/pandemic-parenting-as-a-physician.htm
15 Oct 2020
Pandemic puzzles, parenting, and Poe
This issue covers COVID-19 strategies, care before and after the ICU, and apologies for care breakdowns.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Oct 2020
Substance use problems in the U.S. exacerbated by pandemic, studies indicate
The percentage of urine tests that were positive for illicit drugs increased, an ED saw more nonfatal opioid overdoses, and experts offered hospitalist-specific advice on handling substance use disorders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/30/2.htm
30 Sep 2020
COVID-19 spurs hospital tech, highlights inequalities
The September issue of ACP Hospitalist covers multiple aspects of the pandemic, including resulting advances in hospital tech and disparate impacts on Americans by race, ethnicity, and economic status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/16/5.htm
16 Sep 2020