Background: Hospitalists increasingly confront patient care and policy dilemmas due to financial incentives created by bundled payments, single payments that “bundle” acute and post-acute care for specific diagnoses. The most common and most successful bundled payment has been for total joint replacement, where cost savings have been achieved through discharging patients to home rather than […]

Case Presentation: A 44‐year‐old woman with history of hypertension and GERD presented to the emergency department with dyspnea. Initial findings included hypothermia (36.3°C), hypotension (97/43), tachypnea (respiratory rate 28), and hypoxemia (oxygen saturation 90% on room air). Chest radiograph showed a right lower lobe infiltrate with pleural effusion. Following panculture, the patient was placed on […]

Background: Hospital medicine continues to expand and hospitalist practitioners are now rising to challenges of other venues looking to capture the value hospitalists bring. One area with a paucity of such skill but a rising need is the realm of eating disorder medicine. Purpose: To showcase hospital medicine in a niche role, specifically eating disorder […]