T-Minus 3, 2, 1…
Turns out that South Carolina is having a busy hurricane season. Just days ago, Charleston County was under a mandatory evacuation in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew. All I-26 lanes were converted...
View ArticleDum Spiro Spero
I was filling out my absentee ballot the other day, feeling despondent and uninspired at the choices that lay in front of me. Sensing my despairing emotion about the upcoming election, my 12-year-old...
View ArticleTHIS Is What Teamwork Looks Like
We talk a lot about teamwork in hospital medicine. Since the inception of the specialty, we have long been embedded in, and understand and respect the need for, a multidisciplinary approach to patient...
View ArticleDo Clinicians Understand Quality Metric Data?
The number and complexity of quality metrics within healthcare continues to expand, many of which are used to compare performance between hospitals, systems, and/or clinicians. To make these...
View ArticleThe Impact of Hospital Design on Health – for Patients AND Providers
I was rounding on the inpatient general medicine teaching service last weekend and offered to meet my team of students and residents in the “resident library” on Saturday morning. (Although it holds...
View ArticleOvercoming a Continued Physician Shortage
Updated statistics from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) show that the United States will continue to face a physician shortage over the next decade, ranging from a conservative...
View ArticleWrongful Life
There have been recent discussions in the lay media about a growing trend of litigation cases focused not on the “right to live”, but rather on the “right to die”. These cases have involved patients...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to Healthcare Violence, Silence Isn’t an Option
Editor’s note: As the topic of violence in healthcare has become a hot topic, The Hospital Leader is offering perspectives from two of our expert bloggers. This piece is the second of two; to view the...
View ArticleDo Hospitalists Improve Inpatient Outcomes?
Long continues the debate of what impact hospitalists have on inpatient outcomes. This issue has been playing out in the medical literature for 20 years, since the coining of the term in 1997. In the...
View ArticleLeading in Crisis
I have learned a lot about crisis management and leadership in this rapidly changing COVID healthcare environment. I have learned how to make quick and imperfect decisions with limited information, and...
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