“I am really uncomfortable and in pain,” said Elaine tearfully as I met her in the preoperative area for the first time.…
Hospital-Based Medicine
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I spent my early and mid-career years working in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at a large academic center. We did…
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Two of my local hospitals just invested 3 to 4 million dollars in preparation for an inspection of the facilities by the…
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News
Hospitals are no longer an important part of the social safety net. That’s a problem.
by A Country Doctor MD December 7, 2018“Admission diagnosis: causa socialis” In my training in Sweden, it was not unusual to admit patients to the hospital for social reasons:…
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I enjoy talking to random people about their experiences with health care. As somebody who regularly travels all over the country, for…
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Health care safety efforts have long focused on improving the behavior of providers and improving the systems of care. A proven model…
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Retirement has gotten me edgy. Three months after departing, I had begun spending too much time horizontal, which I forced myself to…
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I was recently seeing a rather complicated medical patient in the hospital. We were treating both a heart and kidney condition, and…