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    Insulin Therapy, C. Diff Update, LMWH or UFH for Acute Coronary Syndrome

    May 2, 2006

    C. Difficile Update Loo VG, Poirier L, Miller MA, et al. A Predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortality. N Engl J Med. 2005 Dec 8;353(23):2442-2449. McDonald LC, Killgore GE, Thompson A, et al.

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    Mid-Life Hospitalists

    May 2, 2006

    Physicians turn mid-life change into mid-life career opportunities as hospitalists, finding both challenge and satisfaction in the process

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    CODE PINK

    May 2, 2006

    The frightening phenomenon of infant abductions in hospitals

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    Mental Health in Colonial America

    May 2, 2006

    Insanity in colonial America was not pretty: emotional torment, social isolation, physical pain—and these were just the treatments! In the late 1700s facilities and treatments were often crude and barbaric; however, this doesn’t mean that those who applied them were fueled by cruelty.

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    Their Own Twist

    May 1, 2006

    Relationships between occupational therapists and hospitalists

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    Near Misses

    May 1, 2006

    A call to arms on close calls in the hospital setting

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    The New Orleans Nocturnalist

    May 1, 2006

    At night it's laissez les bontemps roulez for hospitalists at teh Ochsner Clinic

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    Skin Dilemma

    May 1, 2006

    A75-year-old previously healthy woman presented with one-month history of extensive necrotic coalescing erythematous weeping vesicles and bullae. A skin biopsy was performed.

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    An Analysis of Clinical Reasoning Errors

    May 1, 2006

    Kempainen RR, Migeon MB, Wolf FM. Understanding our mistakes: a primer on errors in clinical reasoning. Med Teach. Mar;2003:25(2);177-181. Many hospitalists are involved in processes to reduce errors in the hospital.

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    To Be or Not To Be a Fellow

    May 1, 2006

    The pors, cons, and prognosis for hospital medicine fellowships