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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. More

In like Flint

The Austin Flint murmur was named for a physician who disliked eponyms. More

The apocalyptic hospitalist

A PubMed search for the phrase “end of the world” had no matches, so we must make certain assumptions in this report. More

Groundhog shift

I'd seen that movie. Could it really be happening to me? More

Food for thought

A Thanksgiving meal develops disturbing medical connotations. More

A jolly old locums

A locums assignment in a northern region leads to an unusual patient. More

Life is sweet: An extremely brief history of diabetes

One thousand years before Hippocrates, healers knew that the passing of too much urine was a bad sign. More

The wisdom of teens

Our editorial advisor learns a thing or two about diagnosis from an unusual source: his teenage son. More

Top 10 reasons not to discharge your patient

Our editorial advisor examines length of stay. More

August 1865

An important transition occurred in medicine nearly 250 years ago More

First call: 1985

Our editorial advisor remembers his first night on call. More

Dressed to kill

A doctor's elegant attire causes trouble in more ways than one. More

Hospital failure

Like a conscientious physician, hospitalists must play doctor to their own facilities. More

Stair wars

I came to an agreement with the medical students on service with me: We would spend our week “elevator-free.” More

A day in the life: The hospital playlist

A typical hospitalist's day if set to music would go a little something like this. More

Safety first

I know I need to get up and get started, get my children ready for school. . .and I have an early morning meeting to which I just can't be late. More

The fantasy hospitalist league

What if there were a fantasy league for hospitalists? More

A lesson in serendipity

Sometimes after a hard morning of rounding, I hide in my office and distract myself by reading a tome from the past. More

Day of the undead: The zombie intern

I didn't think my fellow first-years were really worried about my consuming them, but you never know about the strange prejudices of the living. More

Arsenic and Olds Lake

Could this patient have arsenic poisoning? More

Hospital medicine in Chile

The international hospitalist movement continues to grow, especially in South America. More

That smell

Certain diseases have characteristic odors. More

Hospital medicine in Portugal

Our editorial advisor reports from the 16th National Portuguese Congress of Internal Medicine. More

Iatrogenica

A chance encounter with an old friend leads our editorial advisor to reminisce about patients past. More

Heroic measures

A locum tenens has a strange experience at a new hospital. More

Ruppy: Teaching old dogs new tricks

By focusing on teamwork, communication, and strong relationships, successful collaboration between clinicians and other providers can be achieved. More

The fascinating foxglove

We were rounding on the hospital service when one of our patients, already hypotensive, went into atrial fibrillation. The most appropriate drug wound up being one with a long and illustrious history. More

Write it up

The source of my tension on this particular day was Karin, the incredibly intense fourth-year medical student rounding with me. More

Going up, please

Every morning, our team faced the same difficult decision: going up the stairs or getting on the elevator. More

The write stuff

Have you ever been given a prescription from your physician that was completely illegible? More

Fight the noise

We all know the difficulty in functioning within a noisy hospital. But in hospitals we don’t always have the option of suggesting that we move our discussion to a quiet coffee shop instead. Noise pollution in hospitals is an issue that confronts us all as hospital workers. More

Locum terror

Here I was pulling into the staff parking lot of a funky old private sanitarium in the middle of stinking nowhere. I rang the bell and the creaky door swung open. A very pale and dusty nurse pointed to the staff lounge, but said nothing, though I seemed to detect the ghost of a smile. More

A tick’s tale

People have always been fascinated by medical comedies, medical dramas and medical reality shows. One of the most interesting of the current crop has to be “House, M.D.”—not because it is the most believable, but because it is by far the most inaccurate. More

Hooked on mnemonics

Memory is elusive (and of course, it “lights the corners of my mind”—or at least Barbra Streisand’s mind). That’s why there are so many tricks to remembering things, like acronyms, acrostics, rhyming keys, the image-name technique and the keyword method. More

A leap forward

Life was fairly dull on Ganymede-13. I sat in my small bungalow on the edge of a vast forest of genetically engineered bamboo, looking at several foot-long segments of the plant. More

Lunch with Lynch

Lunch with a former residency director leads to reflections on a career in medicine.
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A very brief history of credentialing

While many may think of it as a modern concept, credentialing has been a part of physicians' careers since long before the Middle Ages.
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Colombia, the new kid on the hospital medicine block

Hospitalists continue to gain exposure and acceptance in the U.S. as well as in other parts of the world, including Australia, Europe and Brazil. We are very excited that now the vibrant Andean country of Colombia is jumping on board.
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Work hour limits: No gain without pain

Nobody would want their child riding on an icy road at 70 miles per hour in a school bus driven by someone whose head keeps nodding. Similarly, who would want to be cared for by a physician who is so fatigued he can’t remember the difference between the cranium and the cremaster?
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Safety versus dignity
February '09

Just for the record
A computer crash prompts reflection on EHRs
January '09

The final page

Medical editor James S. Newman, FACP, remembers his first pager, and his next, and then wearing three at once…
December '08

The hospitalized hospitalist

James S. Newman, FACP, recalls (somewhat fuzzily) his hip transplant
November '08

The House of God revisited

Jamie S. Newman, FACP, offers a hospitalist’s perspective on a classic book
October '08

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