Perspectives
Opinion
Should our patients really go home for the holidays?
Risks to warn patients of include high-risk status, risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and how to mitigate it, and mode of transportation.
Career
The authority/accountability balance
Hospitalist leaders must make sure they have a seat at the table where executive decisions are made.
Opinion
When the only clinical choices are ‘lose-lose’
The current pandemic has provided innumerable situations that can increase the risk for moral injury, said Dr. Peter Yellowlees.
Perspectives
Increasing racial diversity in hospital medicine’s leadership ranks
According to recent data, only 5.5% of hospital medicine group leaders were Black/African American.
Perspectives
Medicine and the meritocracy
The combination of both individual and organizational commitment to change systemic bias in medicine can be quite powerful.
Public Policy
Hospital medicine, it’s time to vote
Hospitalists are in a perfect position to have an educated and influential say in future health care issues.
Opinion
COVID-19 and the superspreaders: Teens
Director of adolescent medicine at Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Margaret Thew shares her experience with teen behavior regarding COVID-19....
Perspectives
2020 has been quite a year
Hospitalists have been incredibly resilient and innovative since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States.
Public Policy
Physicians, make a plan to vote
By voting, we as physicians are helping to address the social determinants of health in our communities.
Perspectives
Social media and health information: Empowering or misleading?
Health care providers often take a conflicted stand on the use of social media by patients.