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Hospitalists Should Research Salary Range by Market Before Negotiating a Job Offer
July 1, 2013
Value of benefits package, pay per unit of work, bonuses are valuable metrics when comparing different jobs
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Hospitalists Should Refrain from Texting Patient Information
June 1, 2013
HIPAA regulations prohibit transferring patient-specific information via text message
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Hospitalists Encouraged to Join Hospital Committees Early
May 1, 2013
Serving on committees improves hospitalist practice health, grants hospital-wide exposure
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Clarifying the Role of Hospitalists Focused on Family Medicine in the ICU
April 1, 2013
Lack of intensivist certification pathways for physicians results in shortage of ICU docs
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Hospital Medicine Group Leaders Strive to Balance Administrative, Clinical Tasks
March 1, 2013
For some hospitalist group leaders, taking a lighter clinical workload allows them to fulfill administrative duties as well
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New Anticoagulants Offer Promise, but Obstacles Remain
February 2, 2013
An overview of the pros and cons of the recently introduced anticoagulant drugs dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and apixaban
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Position Paper on Critical-Care Debate Did Not Address Family Practice Physicians in ICU
January 1, 2013
The main thrust of the paper, "The Critical-Care Debate" article in The Hospitalist, October, 2012 issue, focuses specifically on physicians trained in internal medicine
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Consider Patient Safety, Outcomes Risk before Prescribing Off-Label Drugs
December 2, 2012
Once a drug has been approved for use, if, in your clinical judgment there are other indications for which it could be beneficial, then you are well within your rights to prescribe it
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Clarification of Consult-Code Usage
November 1, 2012
An explanation of billing codes for patients in the ED
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Rules of Engagement Necessary for Comanagement of Orthopedic Patients
October 2, 2012
Professional opinion and advice from a practicing hospitalist
