Background: Hospital medicine physicians may provide advantages in inpatient care compared with traditional ambulatory‐based primary care physicians (PCPs) because of hospitalists' greater focus and experience in inpatient care. However, hospitalists have disadvantages in inpatient care compared with traditional PCPs because PCPs generally have a more established relationship with the patient. Our prior research has shown […]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 58-year-old male with a past medical history of end-stage liver cirrhosis status post-liver transplantation in 1991 who was on tacrolimus (TAC) 1 mg twice a day. He was admitted for altered mental status, fever and respiratory distress. He was found to have bilateral pneumonia treated as community-acquired pneumonia. The […]