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The Return of the Plague: A Primer on Pandemic Ethics
March 31, 2020
I am writing this editorial on a beautiful day in the high desert of the Southwest: a bright blue clear sky such as you see only in the mountain air, a sun warm and comforting, and birds singing as if they had not a care in the world. Spring has come early as ...
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Wilkie and the VA vs COVID-19: Who’s Winning?
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As the VA races to address the COVID-19 crisis, Sec. Wilkie faces a battle on multiple fronts.
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Amid hydroxychloroquine hopes, lupus patients face shortages
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Pharmacists are reporting depleted stocks of the drug, leaving many of the roughly 1.5 million lupus patients across the country unable to get their prescriptions filled. They now face an uncertain future as the public clings to one of the first signs of hope to appear since the coronavirus began sweeping across the U.S.
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Critical care admissions up for pediatric opioid poisonings
February 19, 2020
ORLANDO – Attempted suicide has represented an increasingly large proportion of these severe poisonings.
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Resetting your compensation
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Hospitalists are earning more and professional revenues are not making up the difference.
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A novel communication framework for inpatient pain management
- Sarah Horman, MD;
- Sarah Richards, MD
December 20, 2019
Spend adequate time to fully visit the patients’ history as it relates to their current pain complaints.
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How should anticoagulation be managed in a patient with cirrhosis?
- Denver E. Buchanan, PharmD, BCPS;
- Raj Sehgal, MD, FHM
October 22, 2019
Patients with chronic liver disease have a risk of VTE similar to (or even greater than) that of general medical patients.
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Caution with IVC filters in elderly
- Sadie Trammell Velasquez, MD
September 30, 2019
Are inferior vena cava (IVC) filters in older adults safe for prevention of subsequent pulmonary embolism (PE)?
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Observation versus inpatient status
September 17, 2019
Observation care is increasing, and can frustrate patients and hospitalists.
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Anticoagulant therapy for AFib in patients with end-stage renal disease
- Adam Wachter, MD;
- Faye Farber, MD;
- Megan Brooks, MD;
- Neil Stafford, MD;
- Poonam Sharma Md, SFHM;
- Rami Abdo, MD;
- Shree Menon, DO;
- Suchita Shah Sata, MD
August 23, 2019
Apixaban may be safer than warfarin for patients who have ESRD and who plan for anticoagulation because of AFib.