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A Comparative View of Chinese and American Hospitals
October 1, 2025
The hospital experience can be intimidating for the uninitiated. For hospitalists, however, the hospital is a second home—an environment where we manage patient care with familiarity and...
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Improving Length of Stay and Physician Performance at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
October 1, 2025
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi At Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, accurately measuring the length of stay (LOS) and discharge ratios for individual hospitalists has proven to be a significant challenge....
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Poor Patient Health Literacy and Its Impacts
October 1, 2025
Understanding the complexities of health information and traversing the often obtuse, poorly organized, broader healthcare system can be difficult for even the most knowledgeable and educated...
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Recognizing and Addressing Health Literacy Barriers
October 1, 2025
October marks Health Literacy Month, a crucial observance dedicated to highlighting the essential role health literacy plays in patient care, especially within hospital medicine. Health...
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Cardiac POCUS: A Bedside Window View of the Heart
October 1, 2025
Heart ultrasound image on a computer screen. In many hospitals across the nation, hospitalists assume leadership roles during rapid response and code blue events, especially in settings where...
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How Should Vitamin D Levels be Interpreted in Patients with IBD?
October 1, 2025
A 35-year-old male with Crohn’s disease (CD) presents with diarrhea, frequent abdominal cramps, and fatigue. He is on a tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitor, infliximab 5 mg/kg infusion...
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Cystatin C in the Inpatient Setting: Enhancing Kidney Function Assessment
October 1, 2025
A 68-year-old man on chronic steroids for amiodarone-induced thyroiditis presented with pneumonia, hypotension, and encephalopathy. Though the pneumonia resolved, his encephalopathy worsened, and...
Treating Influenza: Yay or Nay to Antivirals?
October 1, 2025
Vote Yay for Treating Flu A (Dr. Mehta) We, as a nation, recently experienced an influenza epidemic that was the worst in 15 years in my state of Ohio. Questions reminiscent of the pre-pandemic...
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JHM’s Things We Do For No Reason is a Hit
September 16, 2025
Leading up to the Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting in 2012, Lenny Feldman, MD, FACP, FAAP, MHM, associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, was asked to...
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What It Means to Lead: Motherhood, Medicine, and Redefining the Possible
September 16, 2025
Being a woman in medicine is powerful. Being a mother in medicine is redefining leadership through transformation, compassion, and resilience. On September 11, 2025, at the Society of Hospital...