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Larry Beresford

Larry Beresford is an Oakland, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, management and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, palliative care, physician stress and burnout, quality improvement, waste prevention, practice management, innovation, and technology. He also contributes to Medscape. Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.

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Professional versus facility billing: What hospitalists must know
June 15, 2021
Hospitalists don’t often realize how much impact they have on their hospital’s revenue cycle and quality.
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Moral distress in the COVID era weighs on hospitalists
May 3, 2021
“The volume of deaths and the apparent dangers to providers themselves reflect some of the critical aspects of war,” Dr. Asken said.
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Hospital medicine around the world
April 5, 2021
Adaptations of the hospitalist model vary across countries, reflecting local culture, payment models, and medical education.
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SHM CEO Eric Howell likes to fix things
March 1, 2021
“It turns out medicine in the hospital is just as specialized as any other specialty.” – Dr. Eric Howell
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COVID redefines curriculum for hospitalists-in-training
December 3, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic forced medical schools to get back to basics.
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Rationale for baricitinib’s use in COVID-19 patients demonstrated
November 24, 2020
“We went from modeling and mechanistic investigations to clinical tests in a number of settings and laboratory analysis in record time,” Dr. Justin Stebbing said.
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Burnout risk may be exacerbated by COVID crisis
November 4, 2020
“The biggest source of support for many hospitalists, beyond their family, is the group,” said Dr. Clarissa Barnes.
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Hospitalists are natural leaders in the COVID-19 battle
October 30, 2020
Hospitalists have played leading roles in their health systems’ response to the pandemic.
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Hospital medicine in a worldwide pandemic
September 10, 2020
Scope of practice for the hospitalist model continues to evolve, with increased demand for comanagement roles.
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NYC public hospitals rose to the demands of the COVID-19 crisis
August 31, 2020
“We hospitalists, and all those recruited to act as hospitalists, essentially took responsibility for the COVID response.”