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October 2008
Cover Feature
Your next hire could be right down the hall
High-performing hospitalist teams embrace mix of age, experience
Physicians who move from the community to the hospital mid-career present a potential solution to the hospitalist field's perennial workforce shortage. They also offer some benefits and challenges that differ from those of their hospitalist-track peers. Hospitalist leaders who note those differences and find the means to take advantage of them, are on track to building well-balanced, high-functioning hospitalist teams.
Letter from the Editor
Write to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
CMS’ latest “do not pay” conditions: Readers respond
Your Career
Do you really want to be your own boss?
Small hospitalist groups have independence, financial struggles
Hospitalists face issues as they decide whether to start up or join a local hospitalist group, become part of a large group or management company, or be a hospital employee.
When hospitalists marry
A boon for work-life balance.
On-call hours and the unpredictability of many medical specialties can leave married physicians as ships passing in the night—or the front hallway. Yet by working as hospitalists in the same practice, some doctors are able to take care of families and spend quality time together.
Success Story
Hospitalist-only unit frees time, improves care
St. Mary’s Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. saves an hour a day of hospitalists’ time
Medicine and the Law
A legal primer for international medical graduates and their employers
Carl Shusterman, JD, answers FAQs about how immigration law applies to doctors
Newman’s Notions
The House of God revisited
Jamie S. Newman, FACP, offers a hospitalist’s perspective on a classic book
Coding corner: ICD-9 
Measure of the month: Physician Profile
From Kansas to Kenya: Hospitalist volunteers to care for patients around the globe
Matthew H. Harms, FACP, travels the globe for medical work.
Ethical dilemmas
Romantic relationship with former patient
Web Watch
Physician-mothers compare notes on raising children, saving lives
FDA Update
Infection risk Clinical Medicine
Test yourself: Blood transfusions
Perspective
Mammography in frail elderly women
Research News
Recent studies of note
In the News
Report shows slowdown in hospital cost increases
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ACP Hospitalist Weekly
From the September 1, 2010 edition
- Statin prescriptions at discharge increasing in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage
- Black and low-income patients more likely to leave hospital against medical advice, be readmitted
Cartoon Caption Contest
This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Patricia J. Peterson, FACP, in practice in Longview, Wash., who will receive a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service. Thanks to all who voted!
"Did you say you were a little horse? Or a little hoarse?"
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