By Chirag Patel, DO, SFHM, FACP
August 29, 2018 |  1
By:  Chirag R. Patel, DO, SFHM, FACP The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center [email protected] twitter.com/OSUBUCKQI Efficiency and timeliness in care are two of the Institute of Medicine’s six “Aims for Improvement”. Those are literally “million-dollar” topics for your institution, as millions are wasted annually due to throughput inefficiencies and increased length of stay. A […]
By Richard Bottner, PA-C
August 21, 2018 |  2
By:  Richard Bottner, PA-C Hospitalist, Division of Hospital Medicine, Dell Seton Medical Center Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin Alvin is a 42-year-old man who was never really given a chance. His parents both had severe alcohol use disorder. At age 12, his parents encouraged him to skip school […]
By Guest Post
August 8, 2018 |  2
By: Ethan Cumbler, MD, FHM, FACP Sarguni Singh, MD University of Colorado School of Medicine What’s the purpose of attending documentation on a resident’s progress note? The answer might seem obvious, but stop and think about it. Often, the attestation is a detailed exposition of the attending’s own thought process on the diagnosis, differential, and work-up […]
August 1, 2018 |  4
I have a theory. There is a simple thing hospitalists can do that can enhance relationships with our patients, and even, I bet, improve patient satisfaction scores. The catch is it is not something you can do for yourself; you can only “pay it forward” for somebody else. We know patients who trust their physicians […]