- Current Issue
- ACP Hospitalist Weekly
- Supplements
- Blog
- Archives
- Career Connection
- Subscribe to RSS Feeds
September 2008
Cover Feature
Fighting the battle against PTSD
How to detect and treat mental illness in returning veterans
While the military screens soldiers leaving Iraq and Afghanistan for mental health problems at least twice within six months of returning from combat, PTSD can show up several months or years after a person leaves the battlefield. Internists in community and Veterans Affairs hospitals alike must be able to spot and treat PTSD in patients, even when the disorder isn’t immediately apparent.
Letter from the Editor
Write to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Caring for sexual minorities: Readers respond
Ethical dilemmas
Discontinuing treatment: In hopeless cases, providers have a right to refuse to continue
In the News
More hospitals employing physicians, survey finds
Green Medicine
A remedy for medical waste
Hospitals send unused supplies to needy facilities overseas.
Technology
Artificial pancreas closer to reality
Closed-loop system holds promise for in-hospital glucose control.
Your Career
One size does not fit all
Which hospitalist model is right for you?
New job? Ask 4 questions before signing on
An attorney offers tips on contract negotiation.
Physician Profile
Hospitalist is Michigan medical society’s Woman Physician of the Year
Carole Montgomery, ACP Member, has been a hospitalist since the early ’90s.
Quality Corner
Measure of the month: Heart failure
Clinical Medicine
Test yourself: Mental health
Hospitalist Archives
Quick Links
ACP Hospitalist Weekly
From the March 10, 2009 edition
- Current, validated med lists reduce errors on hospital admission
- Use of probiotics helps lower ventilator-associated pneumonia rates
Cartoon Caption Contest
ACP HospitalistWeekly wants readers to create captions for this cartoon and help choose the winner. Pen the winning caption and win a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service.

ACP Career Connection
Looking for a new hospitalist position?
ACP Career Connection can help you find your next job in hospital medicine. Search hospitalist positions nationwide that suit your criteria and preferences. Jobs are posted about two weeks before print publication of Annals of Internal Medicine, ACP Internist, and ACP Hospitalist. Exclusive “Online Direct” opportunities are updated weekly. Check us out online.
New ACP Online Clinical Information Page
Sneak a peek at ACPs new and improved Clinical Information page! Test drive the beta version of our redesigned Clinical Information landing page, give us your feedback, and help us make it as easy to use as possible.
Your Opinion Counts
Twice a year, ACP participates in a journal readership survey of random internists. If you receive one of these surveys in the mail, please indicate if you read our journals and answer the questions about your reading habits of our journals.
Your voice in these surveys is very important to ACP and enables us to continue to produce the high-quality publications that you expect. Find out more.
Cartoon Caption Contest
Hospitalist doesn’t hold back on blog about
Dozens of generic drugs