Background: Hospitalization is often stressful and confusing for patients and families, and hospitalists play a pivotal role in helping navigate complex treatment plans, integrating multiple consultant and ancillary service recommendations, and providing guidance and reassurance. To achieve this, hospitalists need to quickly develop rapport with patients and families. However, most hospital medicine patients are unable [...]

Background: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC) is the second most prevalent type of primary liver malignancy and has less than a 25% 5-year survival rate. Over the last two decades, the incidence of IHCC has been on the rise, however, the trends in mortality related to this form of malignancy are yet to be explored. Therefore, our [...]