Your NEJM Group Today: Helping Clinicians Fight Opioid Epidemic / Botox for Spasticity? / Chicago-Area Hospitalist Opportunity
Take a look at today's offering from NEJM Group: NEJM Catalyst: Providers have a large role to play in tackling the opioid overdose epidemic, but... (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - November 15, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Is your own MD best in the hospital? Study eyes hospitalists
Study suggests old-fashioned family doctor style of medicine could be lifesaving for elderly hospital patients (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Capturing the Patient Voice / Familial Thrombophilia in Pregnancy / New York Hospitalist Opportunities
Here's what we chose for you from NEJM Group today: NEJM Catalyst: Insights Report: How can we capture the patient voice and make hospital staff... (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - November 9, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Capturing the Patient Voice / Familial Thrombophilia in Pregnancy / New York Hospitalist Opportunities (FREE)
By the Editors Here ' s what we chose for you from NEJM Group today:NEJM Catalyst: Insights Report: How … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - November 7, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Conjoined Twins Case / ADHD or Young for Grade? / Chicago-Area Hospitalist Opportunities (FREE)
By the Editors Take a look at today ' s offering from NEJM Group:NEJM Clinical Practice Center: Case Record: Conjoined twin girls — joined from the xiphoid to the … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - October 31, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Can Hospitalists and ED Staff Drive Down Healthcare Costs? Can Hospitalists and ED Staff Drive Down Healthcare Costs?
Telemedicine, ED staff working with hospitalists, and improving patient handoff can improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs, Drs Robert Glatter and Sherri L. Sandel say.Medscape Emergency Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Emergency Medicine Commentary Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Lower-Extremity Ulcer Clinical Pearls / Medical Marijuana for Kids? / Florida Hospitalist-Nocturnist Opportunities (FREE)
By the Editors Here ' s what we chose for you from NEJM Group today:NEJM Resident 360: Clinical Pearls: What are … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - October 23, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Carotid Sinus Massage Video / PPI Dosing & Acid Suppression / Boston-Area Hospitalist Opportunities (FREE)
By the Editors Here ' s what we chose for your from NEJM Group today:NEJM Clinical Practice Center: Video in Clinical Medicine: This video reviews … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - October 18, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Rethinking Low-Risk Research / Rise in Suicide Attempts? / Penn. Hospitalist Opportunity (FREE)
By the Editors Take a look at today ' s offering from NEJM Group:NEJM Audio Interview: Rethinking Low-Risk Research: … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - October 12, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Buffalo Medical Group expands partnership with Catholic Health
Catholic Health is expanding a partnership with Buffalo Medical Group to provide help at a second hospital campus. BMG is now providing hospitalist physicians at the Sisters of Charity Hospital St. Joseph Campus in Cheektowaga, as of Oct. 1. It’s an extension of an agreement that has seen BMG provide hospitalist services at the main Sisters campus since 2012. Hospitalist physicians take care of managing pat ients in acute care hospital settings, consulting with both specialists and patients’… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 10, 2017 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tracey Drury Source Type: news

Controversy Lingers Regarding Pediatric HM Subspecialty Controversy Lingers Regarding Pediatric HM Subspecialty
Hospitalists question whether board certification will make it more difficult to attract candidates to the field.Medscape Internal Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics Article Source Type: news

You Are About to Enter Another Dimension: The Medical Twilight Zone
In the December 2016 “Caring Transitions” column, James Lett, MD, CMD, told a true story about a disagreeable event he encountered as a medical director (Lett, Caring for the Ages 2016;17[12]:16): A patient on observation status (OBS) while in the hospital could not receive Medicare coverage for the subsequent skill ed nursing facility (SNF) post-acute stay, a misunderstanding that resulted in a very surprised, angry family. In this issue, Dr. Lett explores the complexities of OBS status with hospitalist Ken Donovan, MD. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - September 29, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Wayne Saltsman Tags: caring transitions Source Type: news

Amanda Johnson New Hospitalist at White River Medical Center (Movers & Shakers)
Johnson is a graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock and completed a residency in family medicine at the UAMS Northeast Regional Program in Jonesboro. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care)
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - September 25, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Marfan's with Ectopia Lentis / Rising Costs of Topical Steroids / NC Hospitalist Opportunities (FREE)
By the Editors Take a look at today ' s offering from NEJM Group:NEJM Clinical Practice Center: Image in Clinical Medicine: A 41-year-old man presented with progressive loss … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 20, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Your NEJM Group Today: Navigating Rx Price Increases / Dietary Fat & Breast Cancer Outcomes / Illinois Hospitalist Opportunity (FREE)
By the Editors Here ' s what we chose from you from NEJM Group today:NEJM Catalyst: Case … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 12, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news