Feb 3, 2025 · 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.

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 ...

1 day ago · Dr. Keshav Khanijow (pronouns: he/him/his) is a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.. He has a record of clinical excellence, winning the distinguished JHBMC Hospital Medicine Clinical Excellence Award (2019), and later the JHBMC Hospitalist of the Year Award (2022).

Aug 1, 2024 · Dr. Williams quickly progressed with physical therapy from being bedbound to using a wheelchair, a walker, and then a cane. He returned to the teaching service at Barnes in September and was working seven-day blocks again on the floors by December.

Nov 14, 2023 · Implementing and Evaluating a DBN Initiative in a Large Tertiary Care Urban Hospital November 14, 2023. Clinical question: What is the impact of implementing discharge before noon (DBN) initiatives on discharge time and other factors such as length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission, and ED boarding...

Oct 1, 2024 · Besides better patient care, potential benefits of co-management include increased professional satisfaction through collaborative working relationships and better allocation of medical staff expertise among patients, said Daniel A. Meyer, MD, vice chair for clinical affairs and quality in the department of medicine at Maine Medical Center in Portland.

Dec 2, 2024 · Change is Hard: 5 Practical Tips to Leading Change from Rounds to the Board Room December 2, 2024. PHM 2024 Session Recap This session, presented by Brittany Hunter, MD, and Cynthia Castiglioni, MD, MS, was a high-yield quick hit that gave practical solutions on how to implement meaningful change...

Feb 3, 2025 · These include medical errors and the search for solutions (“Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes,” in 2005); rollout of the electronic health record (“The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age,” in 2015); and, coming up in about 18 months, the place for …

Sep 6, 2019 · Hospitalist Rahul C. Borsadia, MD, had been working with Orlando Health Inpatient Medicine Group since the year of its founding in 2011. The salaries of the practice’s physicians back then were based on relative value units (RVU) – the more patients that physicians saw, the higher their salaries.

Oct 1, 2024 · JHM editors share their insights. With a long-running sense that hospitalists often feel in the dark about how to get published, Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM) editors decided it was time to tackle the topic seriously. They soon realized that the traditional avenue—pick a topic and write a single piece about it— would not be enough.