Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

Leaders provide a clear vision, empower others, and direct and motivate their teams to achieve common goals. And although more women work in the medical field than ever before, men dominate ...

Palliative care is both a medical specialty and an art. However, the number of clinicians trained in palliative care is insufficient to meet the increasing demand for goals-of-care and advance care ...

We’ve all said to ourselves hundreds of times, “I need to stay more up to date on the medical literature.” For hospitalists with ever-increasing patient care and administrative responsibilities, it ...

After six months of critical care rotations during my internal medicine residency, I felt well prepared to perform most of the procedures that were core competencies. But after a few years in practice ...

The Cleveland Clinic was the first major academic medical center to make improving patient experience a strategic goal. In 2007, the medical institution hired its first chief patient experience ...

Our first and foremost duty in healthcare is to provide our patients with compassionate and equitable care. Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

Presenters: Mike Pitt, MD, and Jordan Marmet, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minn. Effective communication between clinicians and patients is essential to good ...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains one of the most common reasons adults are admitted to the hospital in the U.S., accounting for more than 1.4 million emergency department visits, 740,000 ...

First, a disclaimer: I am not an attorney, and this is not intended to be legal advice. Any specific questions or concerns you may have should be directed to your legal counsel. The recommendations in ...

A 77-year-old woman with malnutrition, who is undergoing chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer, is being treated with intravenous ceftriaxone and vancomycin through a peripherally inserted central ...