Benefits and risks of outpatient commitment are a means for managing mental illness in patients who are homeless.

A community coalition dedicated to helping homeless people designed a health care intervention that has become a comprehensive and successful medical and respite care program.

This case illustrates how emergency physicians find themselves with an empty toolbox and must compromise to meet their responsibilities to patients and themselves.

It’s a challenge to manage care for homeless people who have chronic health problems and seek warmth and safety in hospital emergency rooms.

The federal requirement for providing emergency medical care to those who cannot pay has been unsuccessful in eliminating refusal of care and the practice of “patient dumping.”

The hospitalist sued in Domby v. Moritz was judged to have met the applicable standard of care for a hospitalist—supervising a patient’s medical care while the patient was in the hospital. Dr. Moritz was not held to the consulting cardiologist’s standard.

Primary care physicians can help hospitalists plan end-of-life conversations with patients or patients’ families.

Voluntary and mandatory hospitalist models and the challenge they face of ensuring that patient care interests retain priority.

The rise in hospital-based medicine and the focused-practice area of hospitalists are altering the traditional paradigm of the patient-physician relationship to emphasize efficiency and justice in medical practice.

Having implied that a particular clinical decision had been made to “free up a hospital bed,” the attending physician walked away without further comments to the residents or talking with the patient.