The benefits and shortcomings of having an in-house staff obstetrician (laborist) deliver all babies and the ethical concerns raised by this practice.

Hospitalists must have and exhibit particular skills and attitudes to ensure that patients and their primary care physicians are satisfied with hospitalist inpatient care.

Financial and patient-safety concerns gave rise to the hospitalist movement and caused it to grow rapidly.

Certification in hospital-based medicine will allow hospitalists to demonstrate competence in critical elements of their practice.

This case poses two important questions. First, do schools have the right or the duty to monitor students’ health status measures and require action from parents and, second, what is the role of a student’s primary care physician in this context?

The adoption of the hospitalist model of care was a revolution so quiet many did not know it was occurring.

Economic and patient safety concerns are driving forces in the hospitalist movement’s history.

Laborists have ethical obligations to their patients and professional obligations to their patients’ obstetricians.

Indications, contraindications, risks, and benefits of treating portal hypertension with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS).

How to resolve conflicts between hospital policy and the treatment recommendations for an individual patient.