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In Patients with Severe Pneumonia or ARDS, Corticosteroids Reduce Short-Term Mortality without Increasing Infections
August 3, 2026
Clinical Question: Does the use of systemic corticosteroids affect short-term mortality in adults with severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)? Background: While...
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Hospitalists Spend on Average 18% of Time in Direct Patient Care
August 3, 2026
Clinical Question: How do hospitalists allocate their time during clinical work, and are quality assessment tools effective in measuring hospitalist workflow? Background: Despite the rapid growth of...
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Hospitalists as Triple Threat Leaders: Clinical Excellence, Education, and Systems Innovation
August 3, 2026
Over the past three decades, hospital medicine has evolved from a pragmatic response to system inefficiencies into one of the most influential and foundational domains in healthcare delivery. First...
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The Weight of the White Coat
August 3, 2026
Words don’t simply flow out now My vocabulary infiltrated by medical jargon Have I found my path or lost direction For my poetic thoughts have gone astray in the midst of God’s “greatest...
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What “ER” Promised and “The Pitt” Delivered
- Naveed Choudry, MD, FACP, FHM
August 3, 2026
The first time I watched “ER”, I wasn’t thinking about admissions, throughput metrics, or RVUs. I was a teenager sitting too close to the television, captivated by the rhythm of a hospital that...
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Night Light
August 3, 2026
During my third year of medical school, after the first night shift of my life, I resolutely decided I wanted to become a hospitalist. Almost a decade later, I found myself sitting at the computer at...
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Celebrating 30 Years of Hospital Medicine With 11 Hospitalists
August 3, 2026
Hospitalists who entered the field of hospital medicine two or three decades ago may not have anticipated how their careers and the specialty would evolve over time. They have witnessed the...
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AI Alerts Versus Clinical Judgment: A Point-Counterpoint on the New Medical Error
- Chris Brodkin, MD;
- Digantkumar Patel, MBBS, MD
August 3, 2026
When the Algorithm Speaks First Decision often begins before the clinical encounter starts. I open the chart and immediately see a banner alert identifying a patient as high risk for sepsis or...
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When the Joint Commission Comes Calling
August 3, 2026
Before he was involved in department leadership, Shivi Sharma, MBBCh, associate director of the hospitalist service at Yale New Haven Health and assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Yale...
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Bridge to Care for OUD: Three-Day Methadone Dispensed at Hospital Discharge
- Meghna N. Shah, MD, Talia R. Kahn, MD, MPH, Kyle R. Sears, MD, and Mehraneh Khalighi, MD
August 3, 2026
The number of opioid-related overdose deaths has sharply increased over the past decade, primarily due to the use of synthetic opioids. There were more than 70,000 such deaths in 2023.1 Although...