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Current Issue: May 2012


Cover Story

Ethics in daily hospitalist practice

How to balance patient, system needs

How to balance patient, system needs

By Janet Colwell

ACP's recently revised Ethics Manual offers guidance on situations relevant to hospitalists, such as stewardship of resources, communicating with patients, and dealing with conflicts over treatment goals.

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Your Practice

Too much of a good thing

Diagnosing and treating inpatient hypercalcemia

Diagnosing and treating inpatient hypercalcemia

By Kathy Holliman

Inpatient hypercalcemia is most commonly associated with a malignancy, but it can be caused by other diseases and conditions as well.

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Caring is hard work

Programs seek to address “compassion fatigue”

Programs seek to address “compassion fatigue”

By Stacey Butterfield

Compassion fatigue shares symptoms and some causes with burnout, but it's not quite the same thing.

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Success Story

Paging Dr. Right

By Stacey Butterfield

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto developed a program to help ensure pages were sent to the correct physician.

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Q&A: Keiki Hinami, MD, ACP Member

Can't always get what you want, but hospitalists come close

Can't always get what you want, but hospitalists come close

By Stacey Butterfield

A recent survey aimed to gain some perspective on job satisfaction for hospitalists.

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Perspectives: Newman's Notions

Rounds in motion

Rounds in motion

By Muaz Abudiab, MD, and James S. Newman, MD, FACP

Our goal was to round with precision, though it was more likely we would meander due to the effects of Brownian motion, bouncing randomly around the hospital, starting at one point and ending up somewhere else.

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ACP Hospitalist Weekly

From the May 23, 2012 edition

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