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Nov 1, 2024 · The Hospitalist is the monthly news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine relevant to hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, medical residents, and health care administrators.
Rebuilding Trust a Top Priority for Hospitalists - The Hospitalist
Nov 14, 2023 · Rebuilding Trust a Top Priority for Hospitalists. By. Thomas R. Collins. November 14, 2023. In addition to all of the more obvious effects such as deaths and lingering comorbidities wrought by the disease, a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon took hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than having patients trust more in their health care ...
Hospitalists as Disruptors in Healthcare - The Hospitalist
May 1, 2024 · According to the Oxford Dictionary, disruptive is, “causing radical change in an existing industry or market through being innovative.”. Healthcare disruptors are hospitalists who are shifting the healthcare industry by making big changes that significantly define the way care is delivered. That means integrating new technologies ...
Managing the Long-term Physical Effects of Being a Hospitalist
Aug 1, 2024 · Managing the Long-term Physical Effects of Being a Hospitalist. By. Larry Beresford. August 1, 2024. Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, MHM, age 64, has been a pioneer of hospital medicine, a physician leader, and a frontline clinician since helping to found the hospitalist program at Grady Hospital in Atlanta in 1998.
What I wish I knew before becoming a hospitalist
Jan 7, 2022 · Now that we have several years of work experience in different areas of the country, there are some concepts we wish we knew before starting our first job as a hospitalist. These concepts can be organized into four key topics with the mnemonic of TEAM: team dynamics, education, administrative tasks, and growth mindset.
What Is a Hospitalist? - The Hospitalist
Feb 2, 2006 · The 2005 update of the Eleventh edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a hospitalist as “a physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients of other physicians in order to minimize the number of hospital visits by other physicians.”. Although I am delighted to see hospitalist in the dictionary, this ...
The evolution of the hospitalist - The Hospitalist
Mar 30, 2022 · T he term hospitalist was coined in 1996 in a New England Journal of Medicine article written by Dr. Robert Wachter—often considered the father of the field. The need was clear: hospitals wanted a physician dedicated to the care of inpatients on a 24/7 basis. Hospitals and patients have benefited tremendously, and hospital medicine has become the fastest-growing medical specialty in U.S ...
Research is Possible—and Vital—as a Hospitalist
Nov 14, 2023 · How and why to do research as hospitalists. Sagar Dugani, MD, PhD, MPH, FHM, assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said that among external sources of funding, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) stands out for many types of hospital medicine research projects—on hospital care, delivery, implementation, and processes in the hospital.
#HowWeHospitalist: A glimpse into six lives - The Hospitalist
Robert Bell. February 16, 2022. They’ve been called heroes and godsends and walked out of work to applause from passersby. That respect and admiration was a balm to overworked hospitalists. Now many of the nation’s estimated 50,000 hospitalists would gladly pass on the attention and adoration for a return to normalcy. Normalcy.
What hospitalists need to know about COVID-19 - The Hospitalist
Feb 28, 2020 · The virus was later labeled as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 is named COVID-19. Until 2019, only six strains of human coronaviruses had previously been identified. As of April 8, 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 has been detected in ...