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Feeding Tube Use Still Common in Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia
July 31, 2025
Clinical question: How frequently are feeding tubes placed during hospitalization in older adults with dementia, and what patient or regional factors influence their use? Background: Feeding tube...
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Time to Rethink SBP. Do the Harms Outweigh the Benefits?
July 31, 2025
Clinical question: In the context of increasing antibiotic resistance and changing microbiology of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis (SBP), does secondary SBP prophylaxis reduce the recurrence of SBP...
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IV Tenecteplase Before Thrombectomy in Stroke
July 31, 2025
Clinical question: Does IV Tenecteplase administered before endovascular thrombectomy lead to a higher likelihood of functional independence at 90 days compared to endovascular thrombectomy...
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Structured Exercise After Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer
July 31, 2025
Clinical question: Does a three-year structured exercise program, started after adjuvant chemotherapy, improve disease-free and overall survival in patients with resected colon cancer compared to...
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Countertransference
July 31, 2025
He raises his head, fingers curled gently around the tiny ankle of the child on the bed – “I lost my grandson last year,” he says, quiet undertone to rustle of sheets from the next room...
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Room 12-240
July 31, 2025
“What’s the story?” I ask as I walk into room 12-240. I’ve done this dance so many times today in so many different rooms all over the tower. The patient I face now is unknown to me. Strands...
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Heart in Bloom
July 31, 2025
"Heart in Bloom" is a 2025 National Hospitalist Day HM Voices Contest Winner "I was on my cardiology service when I painted this piece. The hospital I was rotating at had its mission...
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Lung POCUS: The Hospitalist’s New Stethoscope
July 31, 2025
In the time it takes to order, perform, and upload a stat chest X-ray, a skilled clinician with an ultrasound probe can diagnose an early pneumothorax, confirm pulmonary edema, or eyeball a...
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Beyond the Hospital’s Four Walls
July 31, 2025
When, in their classic 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, announced the emergence of the hospitalist concept, they defined it in terms of doctors...
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A Hospitalist’s Preparedness Guide for Working in Behavioral Health Centers
July 31, 2025
Hospitalists began branching out from traditional general medical wards into specialized fields such as cardiology and oncology many years ago. One of the latest evolutions in hospital medicine is...