Larry Beresford
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Hospitalists Use POLST to Initiate Patient Conversations About Care Goals
October 1, 2024
Defining life-sustaining preferences Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST) is a single-page medical order form, typically printed on bright pink paper, and signed by a physician,...
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Managing the Long-term Physical Effects of Being a Hospitalist
August 1, 2024
Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, MHM, age 64, has been a pioneer of hospital medicine, a physician leader, and a frontline clinician since helping to found the hospitalist program at Grady Hospital in...
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Interruptions: Bad for Hospitalists and Their Patients
April 1, 2024
More than 10 years ago this magazine published an article by Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM, a pioneer of hospital medicine and co-founder of the Society of Hospital Medicine, warning of the hazards of...
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How Can Hospitalists Help Reduce Harmful In-hospital Patient Falls?
March 1, 2024
An estimated 700,000 to 1,000,000 falls occur in hospitalized patients in this country every year, with one-quarter to one-third of the falls leading to injuries. At least 10% of those are serious...
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Debriefings After an Unexpected Hospital Death or Code
February 1, 2024
Hospitalist and palliative-care physician Kencee Graves, MD, FACP, recalls participating on a difficult code-team response while still a new medicine intern at the University of Utah, where she is...
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Hospitalists Explore Evolving Roles in Telemedicine
December 1, 2023
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, health care providers had to learn in a hurry how to navigate telemedicine and virtual, distant encounters with patients—using technologies that...
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Secrets of Satisfied EHR Users
November 1, 2023
A report released earlier this year by KLAS Research identified more than 3,000 “highly satisfied” users of their hospital’s electronic health record (EHR), which has also been shown to be a...
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Onco-Hospitalists Bring Value to Patient Care
October 2, 2023
Most working hospitalists will see cancer patients regularly on their hospital rounds since it’s the main underlying condition for many hospital admissions—whether for the disease itself, side...
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Important Lessons from Hospitalists Who Love Their Jobs
May 1, 2023
Job stress, moral injury, burnout, and the great resignation—these are very real concerns for the field of hospital medicine, exacerbated by but not limited to the unprecedented challenges of the...
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Hospitalist Volunteers Give Back to Their Communities
April 3, 2023
For National Volunteer Month, April 2023, The Hospitalist celebrates four hospitalists who’ve found innovative ways to contribute their professional expertise to their communities. Bringing their...