Cover Story

Top Docs

Meet our 2013 Top Hospitalists

By Janet Colwell

Our call for nominations last spring yielded an impressive number of nominees, from which our editorial board selected the ten featured here. These physicians have done admirable work in patient rounding, resident education, technology, workload balance, and more.

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Clinical care

Syncope units: One solution to an expensive problem

Approach may help avoid unnecessary testing, enhance diagnosis

By Terri D’Arrigo

These multidisciplinary teams function as part of EDs, observation or inpatient units. European studies suggest they may help shorten length of stay.

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Work-Life Balance

Q&A with Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, FACP

Internist discusses her new book “What Doctors Feel”

By Jessica Berthold

When physicians get a handle on work-related emotions, it helps improve patient care as well as self-care.

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The Brief Case

Individual cases submitted by readers

Eosinophilic pneumonia, septicemia after eating oysters, and more

By Jennifer Gauntt, MD, ACP Resident/Fellow Member; Ezeocke Chukuwuemeka, MD; Grace Salame, MD; Saurabh Sharma, MD, ACP Resident/Fellow Member; Nynke C. den Hollander, MD, ACP Member; Juan C. Sarria, MD; Herbert Ip, MD, ACP Resident/Fellow Member; Josh Grossman, MD, FACP; David Hirota, MD, FACP; and Stephen Marer, MD.

Physician editor: Christopher Sankey, MD, ACP Member

Other cases examine squamous-cell carcinoma of the gallbladder and vancomycin-induced thrombocytopenia.

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Success story

Play it again

Hospitals record education discharge conversations for patients

By Stacey Butterfield

Effort at Cullman Regional Medical Center in Cullman, Ala. led to better patient satisfaction scores and lower 30-day readmissions rates.

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Physician profile

Gaming the hospital

James J. Fulmer, MD, FACP, inventor of “Doctor Wars,” a board game based on hospital practice

By Stacey Butterfield

Many of the game's challenges and jokes were drawn from experience in hospital medicine.

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Newman's Notions

Eponymous chest pain

By Gaby Frank, MD, FACP, and James S. Newman, MD, FACP

A hectic day is made worse by a know-it-all fellow.

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