Background: Many cancer centers use the hospitalist model in the inpatient setting (1) since hospitalists provide high quality, cost efficient care (2). Our 678-bed quaternary hospital uses oncology hospitalist teams to care for all inpatients with solid tumor malignancies with medical oncology and palliative care consulting as needed. Internal medicine residents and advanced practice fellows [...]

Case Presentation: We present a 69-year-old man with past medical history of well-controlled type 2 diabetes and multiple myeloma status-post chemotherapy (daratumumab, lenalidomide, bortezomib, melphalan) and subsequent bone marrow transplant (BMT) who presented with subacute progressive bilateral numbness and weakness in his upper and lower extremities and was found to have acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.His [...]

Case Presentation: A 72-year-old man with known multiple myeloma is admitted to hospital for initiation of chemotherapy due to cancer progression. He was first diagnosed with smoldering myeloma in 2003. He was then diagnosed with multiple myeloma after a bone marrow biopsy in 2021 revealed 98% plasma cells. One year after diagnosis, he started noticing [...]