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How to Lead a Debrief After a Patient Death or Adverse Event
July 1, 2026
Every patient’s death carries a weight that physicians learn to carry quietly, sometimes for years. Experience does not erase it. Even seasoned clinicians find themselves returning to the same...
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Leveraging Research, Education, and Communication for Better LGBTQIA+ Care
June 1, 2026
Dr. Keaster Andrew Keaster, MD, is a hospitalist with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, who also takes some shifts at the gender-affirming care clinic that he...
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The Value of Investing in Good Onboarding for Hospitalists
May 1, 2026
Every hospital system faces the challenges of orienting and integrating new healthcare personnel, including new hospitalists, many of whom come straight from residency or fellowship. Some bumps are...
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Virtual Hybrid H@H Model Offers Comparable Safety, More Comfort
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: Is a hybrid hospital at home program as safe as traditional inpatient care? BACKGROUND: Hospital at home (H@H) programs are expanding in the U.S. in an effort to ease hospital...
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Expanding Pediatric Hospital Capacity Through a Pediatric Hospital-at-Home Unit in a Large U.S. Children’s Hospital
March 2, 2026
Children’s hospitals across the U.S. are increasingly experiencing capacity shortages, particularly at times of seasonal surges in acute illness.1 In addition, increasing closures of smaller and...
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Rounding and Admitting Teams—Separate or Together?
March 2, 2026
Clean, Clear, and Consistent For years, I was strongly against splitting our hospital medicine team structure into admitting and rounding teams. In looking at the competing values associated with...
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Essential, Yet Unsettled: H-1B Hospitalists
January 5, 2026
Maheswara Reddy Koppula, MD, who was born in India and now works as a physician in the U.S., had fulfilled the requirements of his J-1 visa, which required him to work in a medically underserved...
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Pediatric Nurses Provide Unique Perspectives on PFC Rounds
January 5, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: What are the benefits and barriers to participating in patient-and-family-centered (PFC) rounds from a pediatric nursing perspective? BACKGROUND: Interprofessional PFC rounding...
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Embracing Tele-Hospitalist Cross-Coverage Model as a Solution for Staffing Shortages
December 1, 2025
Staffing shortages in hospital medicine affect hospitals nationwide, presenting a critical challenge. The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by...
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Overdiagnosis in the Inpatient Setting: Lessons from Goldilocks
December 1, 2025
A 68-year-old male with left hemiplegia resulting from a cerebrovascular accident, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and a left ureteral stone presents to the emergency department with diarrhea, dysuria, and...
