Background: Interdisciplinary rounding at the bedside is a recognized practice for improving patient care, communication, and teamwork. The Focused Interdisciplinary Team (FIT) Rounding model at UCSD has been in place since 2017. Since its implementation, our focus has been on sustaining the standardization of rounding practices and monitoring the impact of FIT on care quality [...]

Background: Diagnose and treat. That is the role of the physician. But the practice of medicine in recent years has been beaten hollow; its patient mission eclipsed by unwieldy technology and its practitioners so inundated with documentation and data entry, resulting in disengaged, frustrated, and burned out clinicians. The hospitalist has access to the entirety [...]

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old female with a history of SLE and chronic diarrhea presented with a one-day history of fever and lethargy. On admission, she was septic with a pancytopenia and a neutropenia with an ANC of 1.6. CT of chest, abdomen and pelvis showed non-specific enteritis, concordant with the chronic diarrhea history, but no [...]

Case Presentation: We present a 70-year-old female with a past medical history of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, COPD, and type-2 diabetes mellitus who was admitted with subjective fevers, vomiting, diarrhea, and intermittent cough for five days. On admission, the patient was alert and oriented but febrile (39C) and tachycardic (112 beats/min). Laboratory tests were significant [...]