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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.

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Hypercalcemia

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.

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Professional Support

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.

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Success Story

Paging Dr. Right

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto developed a program to help ensure pages were sent to the correct physician.

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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.

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Your Practice

Coding Corner

Functional quadriplegia

Functional quadriplegia is clinically comparable to physical quadriplegia but is rarely diagnosed.

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Perspectives

Patient-Centered Care

Patient-centered care from admission to discharge

How to improve bedside visits

It's hard to increase time spent with patients, so improving the quality of the time is the only workable alternative.

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Letters

Letter from the Editor

Some of this issue's topics include ethics in the hospital, diagnosis and treatment of hypercalcemia, and compassion fatigue.

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Student Hospitalist

From cold feet to code feat

An internship boot camp prepares final-year medical students for the daily encounters they'll face in the years ahead.

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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.

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Clinical Medicine

Test Yourself

Test yourself: MKSAP quiz on hypercalcemia

These cases and commentary, which address hypercalcemia, are excerpted from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP15).

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FDA Update

New warnings for statins, drug approval for Cushing's syndrome

Details on warnings, approvals and more.

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Research Update

Recent Research

Swallowing screens after acute stroke, cardiac complications in CAP, and more.

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In the News

Rapid flu tests, ICU delirium risk, and more.

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Your Career

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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.

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ACP offers its members many ways to earn ABIM MOC points for Medical Knowledge and to make the process easier. See details.