Steven Z. Pantilat, MD, SFHM, medical director of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine palliative care service, explains palliative care is not end-of-life care, and the role hospitalists should play in palliative cases.
In sickle cell disease (SCD), inherited mutations in hemoglobin cause red blood cells to become rigid and sickle-shaped, obstructing microvascular flow and triggering inflammation, hemolysis, and...
Why Hospitalists Should Not Routinely Perform Bedside Procedures After six months of critical care rotations during my internal medicine residency, I felt well prepared to perform most of the...
Clinical Question: How do hospitalists allocate their time during clinical work, and are quality assessment tools effective in measuring hospitalist workflow? Background: Despite the rapid growth of...
The number of opioid-related overdose deaths has sharply increased over the past decade, primarily due to the use of synthetic opioids. There were more than 70,000 such deaths in 2023.1 Although...
