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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

Your next hire could be right down the hall 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?

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

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

Therapeutics

Conserving blood

Conserving blood

How hospitals are reducing blood transfusion rates


 

 

 

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

The House of God

Jamie S. Newman, FACP, offers a hospitalist’s perspective on a classic book

 

 

 

 

Billing and Coding

Coding cornerCoding corner: ICD-9 changes take effect

 

 

 

Quality Corner

Measure of the monthMeasure of the month: Coronary artery disease

 

 

 

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 warning with TNF blockersInfection risk warning with TNF blockers

 

 

 

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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