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Current Issue: 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 of the American College of Physicians 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
Newman’s notions
Going up, please
Every morning, our team faced the same difficult decision: going up the stairs or getting on the elevator.
Clinical medicine
Test yourself
Infectious diseases
The following cases and commentary, which address infectious diseases, are excerpted from ACP’s Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP14).
ACP Hospitalist Weekly
From the February 3, 2009 edition
- Intensive insulin therapy doesn’t improve outcomes in septic shock treated with hydrocortisone
- Procalcitonin strategy reduces antibiotic exposure for ICU patients
Cartoon Caption Contest
This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Steven J. Meyerson, ACP Member, who will receive a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service. Thanks to all who voted!
"I know, sir. A lot of our patients feel that way about their health plans."
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