Features
Article: The Obesity Problem in U.S. Hospitals
Special challenges of transporting, diagnosing, and treating the morbidly obese
Article: While Residents Rest
The challenges involved as hospitalists fill the gap of recently reduced resident duty hours
Article: Hospice Heart
A hospitalist in Texas fulfills her dream to direct an in patient hospice unit
Article: Risky Business II: A Whole New Category of Risk
Improve patient safety and communication to lower malpractice litigation
Article: Uncertain Prognosis
Special considerations for high-risk patients at end of life
Article: Take Research Initiative
Avenues to increase hospital medicine research and close the quality gap
Article: To Tube or Not to Tube
The implications of PEG tube use in the hospitalized older adult
Article: Team Rapid
An up-close view of how one L.A. hospital set up its rapid response team
Article: The Yuk Factor
Maggot debridement therapy: the ancient treatment for chronic wounds makes a comeback
Article: Pantilat Receives Endowed Chair
A first for hospital medicine, the chair moves palliative care forward at UCSF
Cover Story: Tough Negotiations Avert B.C. Hospitalist Walkout
Two weeks of intense talks between hospitalists and government officials resulted in an 11th-hour compromise on June 29th in British Columbia
Cover Story: The Coming Windfall
CMS proposes double-digit increases for work RVUs for services performed by hospitalists
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Departments
Flashback: Doctors of the American Frontier
What’s Your Diagnosis?: Rash Judgement
A 38-year-old, healthy, incarcerated, African-American man presented with a one-and-a-half year history of an eruption in his axillae
Career Development: Shift Perspectives
Consider a more healthful schedule for your group
Society Pages: SHM Surveys Revisited
Article: Virus Alerts
CDC issues warnings about two viruses with serious potential complications
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Columns
Progress Notes: A Piece of Eddie
Medical malapropisms, mondegreens, and other matters
SHM Point of View: The Reality of Today
External realities will shape the hospital of the future
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May 2012
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