December 17, 2018 |  4
According to a new survey report released by The Physicians Foundation, 80% of physicians across all specialties report being at full capacity or overextended, and 78% reported sometimes, often, or always experiencing feelings of burnout. Sixty-two percent of U.S. doctors are pessimistic about the future of medicine, and 49% wouldn’t recommend medicine as a career […]
December 12, 2018 |  1
There are a limited number of things in hospital medicine that we do that decrease the risk of all-cause mortality by up to half. Usually these are the type of things that we don’t even think about possibly missing. Does your hospital give people with STEMIs an aspirin? Even that has a number needed to […]
December 10, 2018 |  8
Seen the State of Hospital Medicine report for 2018? I have, and there is erudition galore. Here is one that has me contemplating. I was surprised to see the breakdown below. Not so long ago, I would say less than ten years, the scatter for adults was more balanced. By that I mean, the 99222 codes were […]
December 6, 2018 |  0
Co-authored by Vinny Arora, MD, MAPP, MHM One of us is a lucky husband to a physician mother, while the other is a physician hospitalist mom who is married to another hospitalist-leader. Together, we share many things: hospital medicine, #JHMChat, research interests, workshops, social circles, University of Chicago, and of course, being parents to young […]
December 3, 2018 |  0
I am excited to share that I recently transitioned into a new role at University of Chicago Medicine: the Associate Chief Medical Officer for the Clinical Learning Environment. You may wonder what does that even mean? Well, five years ago, I started in a role in Graduate Medical Education to improve the clinical learning environment […]