Practice Management
Career
Physician burnout costly to organizations and U.S. health system
What is the attributable cost of physician burnout at both the U.S. health care system level and individual organization level?
News
Health care workers implore OSHA for more oversight on COVID-19 safety
News
COVID spikes exacerbate health worker shortages in Rocky Mountains, Great Plains
“One case can take out a whole team of people in a blink of an eye.”
News
Patients can read your clinical notes starting Nov. 2
“Open notes” mandates immediate patient access to inpatient and outpatient notes and testing and imaging results.
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.
Practice Management
Hospitalists and unit-based assignments
The push for geographic rounding comes from the need to achieve excellence in patient care and efficiency in work flow.
Public Policy
COVID-19 pandemic amplifies uncertainty for immigrant hospitalists
“It feels like we are essential health care workers but non-essential immigrants,” said Dr. Patel.
Practice Management
Hospital leadership lessons in the era of COVID-19
In a virtual SHM seminar, Dr. Leonard Marcus shared advice and techniques for meta-leadership.
Quality
The ally in the waiting room
Daily communication between hospitalists and a patient’s loved one is important to give a sense that the patient is looked after.
News
Pandemic poses new challenges for rural doctors
But physicians are adapting and still finding joy in treating patients.