Background: Hospitalization provides an opportunity to provide patients who use tobacco with evidence-based treatment for cessation, including nicotine replacement therapy, motivational interviewing, and pharmacotherapy. However, this benefit is often lost without appropriate transitions in care to outpatient cessation resources. We have found that inpatient tobacco cessation interventions at our 600-bed urban academic medical center do […]

Case Presentation: A 54‐year‐old African American woman with a history of hypertension and intravenous drug abuse presented to the emergency room with a 2‐month history of lower back pain and new onset right lower leg radicular pain and paresthesias. The patient had an emergent lumbosacral MRI revealing inflammatory changes at L4–L5 and L5–S1 worrisome for […]