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November 2012
Featured Articles
Cover Story
Top Docs
Meet our 2012 Top Hospitalists
Our fifth annual Top Hospitalists issue recognizes 10 dedicated physicians.
Medicine and the Law
Hold on to your tail
Questions to ask about malpractice insurance
Limitations in coverage can cause problems if a physician is sued and during future employment changes.
Chronic Disease
Caring for inpatients with chronic diseases from childhood
Hospitalists may need to help smooth the transition from pediatric care.
The Brief Case
Cases from Yale-New Haven Hospital
This new quarterly column summarizes interesting patients in their doctors' words.
Success Story
A new home for hospitalists
Denver Health Medical Center helped reduce boarding of patients in the emergency department.
Q&A: Joyce M. Fried
Optimizing Tx of medical students
Medical student mistreatment appears to be more common than one might think.
Your Practice
Coding Corner
Documentation of medical necessity
Part one of a three-part series
“Medical necessity” is a vague standard, but it's a crucial one to try to understand.
Perspectives
EHRs
Improve core measure compliance with electronic medical record tools
A hospitalist explains how his facility uses its EHR to meet CMS core measures.
Student Hospitalist
The rise of the consumer-student
Over and over in classrooms and lounges, I regularly overhear, “I can't believe I'm paying $50,000 a year to do this.”
Letters
Letter from the Editor
This issue features our annual Top Docs profiles, as well as a new quarterly column, The Brief Case.
Newman's Notions
Food for thought
Take a humorous look at a fictional doctor's quest to get some food during a busy day.
Clinical Medicine
FDA Update
Generic pioglitazone, new HIV combination pill approved
Details on recalls, warnings, label changes and approvals.
Research Update
Recent Research
Side effects of statins, ACE inhibitors and in-hospital outcomes for CABG, and more.
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Cartoon Caption Contest
This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Jennifer L. Norris, MD, ACP Member. Thanks to all who voted!
"I had something else in mind when I asked for an outline of the patient's condition."
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