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January 2010
Featured Articles
Cover story
More than a mentor
Mentors play a crucial role in helping less experienced physicians develop their careers. A good coach can provide needed perspective and guidance.
Your practice
Helping patients kick the habit
In the face of recent reports that U.S. smoking rates are no longer declining, hospitalists may be ideally situated to help patients quit.
Success story
A bundle of care that keeps elderly patients out of the hospital
Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas instituted a pilot project providing a “care bundle” to elderly patients at particularly high risk for returning to the hospital.
Conference coverage
Future of antibiotics worries infectious disease experts
At the Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting last fall, one of the issues that most riled the experts was antibiotics, specifically the lack of them.
Twelve ways to improve hospitalist communication
An expert from the annual Medical Group Management Association meeting offers tips.
Mindful Medicine
When the findings don’t fit
A Fellow investigates a young woman’s elevated testosterone level and reaches a diagnosis even though the lab results and imaging conflict. Our diagnostic experts consider confirmation bias and how this internist sidestepped being misled.
Physician Profile
Comforting the chronically ill
David K. Jones, MD, takes palliative care up a notch.
Perspectives
Letter from the editor
Mentoring has a long history in medicine, particularly in the area of research. These days, many physician mentors go beyond advising their less experienced colleagues on specific projects and act more like coaches, helping guide their apprentices to new career heights.
Newman’s notions
Going up, please
Every morning, our team faced the same difficult decision: going up the stairs or getting on the elevator.
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Documenting adverse drug reactions and poisonings
Adverse effects of a correctly administered drug or drugs must be coded and reported differently than the misuse of a drug, which is classified as “poisoning” in ICD-9-CM coding.
Clinical Medicine
National trends
Inpatient deaths cost nearly $20 billion; septicemia leading cause
One of every three people who died in the U.S. in 2007 was in the hospital for treatment at the time of death.
Test yourself
Infectious diseases
The following cases and commentary, which address infectious diseases, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
FDA update
Don’t use PPIs with clopidogrel, FDA warns
Warnings, recalls, approvals
Research news
Journal watch
Recent studies of note.
In the news
Proxies’ perceptions about dementia, and more.
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From the February 1, 2012 edition
- Hospitalist practice models have little effect on job satisfaction, burnout, survey finds
- Hospital stays involving C. diff leveled off between 2008 and 2009
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ACP Career Connection
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ABIM Maintenance of Certification for Hospitalists
Hospital-based internists have the option of maintaining their certification in either Internal Medicine or Internal Medicine with a Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine. Learn more about resources from ACP and the Society for Hospital Medicine to complete both MOC programs.
Internal Medicine 2012
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ACP Launches Depression Care Guide
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