Background: Mentorship is key to successful, satisfying, and engaging academic careers. Models for mentorship and faculty development exist, but are often resource-intensive and focused on achieving success in research. Establishing mentorship in hospital medicine has been challenging given most programs have relatively few senior faculty, and most new hospitalists are recent residency graduates with little [...]

Background: According to the most recent data released by the Centers for Disease Control, forty-six Americans die every day due to narcotic prescription drug overdose. Nationally, health care providers wrote two hundred and fifty-nine million prescriptions for narcotic analgesics in 2012, or roughly one bottle of narcotics per US adult. In an attempt to reduce [...]

Case Presentation: A 78-year-old white female with sarcomatoid mesothelioma status post gemcitabine and carboplatin presented to an urgent care center with sudden onset of low grade fever and fatigue. She reported a puppy bite 1 week earlier. Examination revealed ½ cm ecchymosis on left forearm at bite site. She was sent home on oral levaquin [...]

Case Presentation: A 45 year-old woman presented with 4 hours of lower back pain, after a fall from standing. She did not report a loss of consciousness, and did not injure her head. She had no neurological deficits, nor bladder of bowel dysfunction. She denied any chest pain or dyspnea. A standard 12 lead EKG [...]

Case Presentation: An 80 yo African-American female with past medical history of hypertension, uterine cancer s/p radiation and mild cognitive impairment presented to the hospital with fatigue and non-specific symptoms for 2 weeks. On examination, vital signs were within normal limits and no acute findings were noticed except impaired vision and mild cognitive impairment. Initial labs were [...]