Background: Effective collaboration between hospitalists and subspecialists is crucial for high-quality inpatient care. Nevertheless, research on interprofessional communication and decision-making in South Korea remains limited, partly reflecting the early stage of the country’s hospitalist system. This study aimed to investigate differences in perceptions regarding conflicts, communication, and care continuity between hospitalists and subspecialists. Methods: A [...]

Case Presentation: 50 year old male with PMH significant for seizure disorder (on Keppra) and COPD (not on home oxygen) presenting with weakness, fatigue, dyspnea on exertion, and 50-pound weight loss over four months. During this admission, he was found to have acute hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to right basilar pneumonia with small right pleural [...]

Case Presentation: A 51-year-old woman presented to the ER with acute altered mental status, left-sided weakness, and fever. Her medical history includes hypertension, hyperlipidemia, complex migraines, and strokes (2021, 2024). A stroke code was activated. Vital signs showed fever 40.6°C, HR 120, and BP 180/100 mmHg. Labs showed leukocytosis and lactic acidosis. Physical exam revealed [...]

Case Presentation: A 34-year-old female with a history of focal epilepsy diagnosed during childhood complicated by status epilepticus, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and history of chronic hyponatremia presented to the hospital at 25 weeks gestation with complaints of recurrent seizures. During the admission process she had multiple witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizures with nystagmus requiring multiple rounds [...]

Case Presentation: A 40-year-old female presented in June of 2023 with emesis and a fever of 38.9 °C. She complained of epigastric pain radiating to the back. The patient reported no recent travel. She worked in a daycare and had a pet dog. She had not hiked or camped recently. She walked her dog at [...]

Case Presentation: A 31-year-old female with a past medical history of obesity, angioedema, and ADHD presented to the ED for progressive bilateral numbness and weakness in both extremities starting after she increased her Semaglutide dosage by an unknown amount 6 days prior . The vital signs demonstrated slight tachycardia, otherwise were unremarkable. On physical exam, [...]

Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and alcohol use disorder presentedwith sudden severe generalized abdominal pain after a year of intermittent lower abdominaldistention but no urinary symptoms. He denied dysuria, hematuria, frequency, urgency,hesitancy, or recent urologic procedures. Prior outpatient evaluations had suggestedpossible urinary retention, but no definitive diagnosis or treatment had been implemented.In [...]

Case Presentation: For this 18-year-old woman, the pregnancy ended but the diagnosis never did. Eighteen months after an eclamptic delivery, she presented with occipital headache, photophobia, and a generalized tonic–clonic seizure. In the intervening months, she had difficult blood pressure and recurrent seizures, repeatedly framed as lingering eclampsia and post-pregnancy hypertension despite escalating polypharmacy. On [...]

Case Presentation: An 88-year-old male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hypothyroidism presented with acute onset right leg paralysis.The patient awoke with complete right leg paralysis, but otherwise asymptomatic and had normal mentation. Vital signs were unremarkable. Physical exam was notable for decreased sensation in the entire right lower extremity, [...]

Case Presentation: A 23-year-old woman with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, large vessel vasculitis, and prior pulmonary embolism presented with progressive dyspnea, fatigue, and hemoptysis. Diagnostic evaluation revealed large vessel vasculitis and right-sided pneumonia on imaging; echocardiography showed a dilated left ventricle with global hypokinesis, severe aortic insufficiency (ejection fraction 39%), and moderate hypertrophy. Her cardiac catheterisation [...]