Opinion
Community pediatric care is diminishing
January 15, 2020
With the loss of pediatric units, community hospitals lose their comfort caring for children.
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Opinion
Envisioning the future of hospital medicine
December 18, 2019
The hospital medicine practice model as we know it may be facing an existential crisis.
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Opinion
Guideline: Diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia
November 22, 2019
The practice guideline was jointly written by an ad hoc committee of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Opinion
Was the success of hospital medicine inevitable?
November 8, 2019
SHM leadership has always believed that hospital medicine is a “work in progress,” says Dr. Larry Wellikson.
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Opinion
Climate change, health systems, and hospital medicine
October 24, 2019
Carbon neutrality is achievable in the health care sector, but time is of the essence.
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Opinion
Labeling of medication warnings
September 30, 2019
Issuing timely warnings regarding medical products promotes patient safety, and the law appears to place the major onus on the manufacturer.
Opinion
Cellulitis pearls
March 28, 2019
How would you treat this patient with cellulitis?
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Opinion
FDA approval of powerful opioid tinged with irony
November 5, 2018
The agency’s approval of Dsuvia comes at a time when the need is great for nonaddictive agents for pain control.
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Opinion
How much more proof do you need?
October 16, 2018
Why are there still proponents for lengthy IV therapy when oral therapy works just as well?
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Opinion
Kawasaki disease: New info to enhance our index of suspicion
May 30, 2018
Now the seasonality trends appear blurred in the youngest cases and the male predominance is blurred in the oldest cases.
