Larry Beresford is an Oakland, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, management and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, palliative care, physician stress and burnout, quality improvement, waste prevention, practice management, innovation, and technology. He also contributes to Medscape. Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.
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Hospital disaster preparation confronts COVID
“We weren’t able to grasp the scale [of COVID-19] at the outset. It does defy the imagination,” said Dr. Jason Persoff.
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Professional versus facility billing: What hospitalists must know
Hospitalists don’t often realize how much impact they have on their hospital’s revenue cycle and quality.
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Moral distress in the COVID era weighs on hospitalists
“The volume of deaths and the apparent dangers to providers themselves reflect some of the critical aspects of war,” Dr. Asken said.
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Hospital medicine around the world
Adaptations of the hospitalist model vary across countries, reflecting local culture, payment models, and medical education.
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SHM CEO Eric Howell likes to fix things
“It turns out medicine in the hospital is just as specialized as any other specialty.” – Dr. Eric Howell
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Weight loss may be paramount lifestyle change in preventing gout
“Don’t lose sight of the lifestyle risk factors, which are interrelated. This is not only the responsibility of one doctor or the other,” said Dr...
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COVID redefines curriculum for hospitalists-in-training
The COVID-19 pandemic forced medical schools to get back to basics.
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Rationale for baricitinib’s use in COVID-19 patients demonstrated
“We went from modeling and mechanistic investigations to clinical tests in a number of settings and laboratory analysis in record time,” Dr....
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Burnout risk may be exacerbated by COVID crisis
“The biggest source of support for many hospitalists, beyond their family, is the group,” said Dr. Clarissa Barnes.
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Twelve medical groups pen letter opposing UHC copay accumulator program
“We see policies like this as sacrificing patients to the battle over high drug prices,” said Dr. Christopher Phillips.
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Hospitalists are natural leaders in the COVID-19 battle
Hospitalists have played leading roles in their health systems’ response to the pandemic.
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Role of aspirin explored in primary prevention of CVD in systemic rheumatic diseases
“The message for rheumatologists is it needs to be prescribed on an individual basis, rather than based on diagnosis of a rheumatic condition – at...
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Hospital medicine in a worldwide pandemic
Scope of practice for the hospitalist model continues to evolve, with increased demand for comanagement roles.
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NYC public hospitals rose to the demands of the COVID-19 crisis
“We hospitalists, and all those recruited to act as hospitalists, essentially took responsibility for the COVID response.”
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Hospitalists confront administrative, financial challenges of COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 crisis may present an opportunity for hospital medicine to rapidly explore different models.