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Current Issue: May 2012
Cover Story
Ethics in daily hospitalist practice
How to balance patient, system needs
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.
Your Practice
Too much of a good thing
Diagnosing and treating inpatient hypercalcemia
Inpatient hypercalcemia is most commonly associated with a malignancy, but it can be caused by other diseases and conditions as well.
Caring is hard work
Programs seek to address “compassion fatigue”
Compassion fatigue shares symptoms and some causes with burnout, but it's not quite the same thing.
Success Story
Paging Dr. Right
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto developed a program to help ensure pages were sent to the correct physician.
Q&A: Keiki Hinami, MD, ACP Member
Can't always get what you want, but hospitalists come close
A recent survey aimed to gain some perspective on job satisfaction for hospitalists.
Perspectives: Newman's Notions
Rounds in motion
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.
ACP Hospitalist Weekly
From the May 23, 2012 edition
- Statins may boost short-term outcomes for stroke inpatients
- ighttime intensivist staffing may reduce death in some ICUs
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