The Hospitalist Is In . . .
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When Joan Irvine's husband collapsed in July from heart problems, he was rushed to Montgomery General Hospital. There, he was admitted not by the family's primary care doctor but by a hospitalist, one of a growing breed of physicians specializing in inpatient care.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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Imagine living out your golden years in a place where someone cooks all your meals and cleans your apartment. A doctor and nurses are on the premises, 24-7.
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Ke'tavious Johnson has spent half his two years in a hospital, getting poked and prodded by doctors and nurses trying to keep him alive. He still hasn't gotten used to it.
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I overheard a long-time hospital client talking to another support vendor today. The hospitalâs patient accounting department was attempting to send patient financial and billing data to a third-party biller. The vendorâs normal Web site was down, and they were trying to come up with an emergency fix.
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Her legs crippled by diabetes, Mary Lewis is grateful it's a short distance between her doctor's office at Riverview Hospital and the adjacent apartment tower where she lives.
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Russom Ghebrai walks the corridors of Greater Southeast Community Hospital with quiet authority. Seventy hours a week, he dons the white coat of his profession and attends to patients on the fringes of medical care.
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After caring for patients for 40 years, an Atlanta hospital now is tending to its own wounds. Southwest Hospital and Medical Center, which this month filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, seeks a financial
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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Desperate for a solution, a doctor tries the hardware store when hospital equipment won't do.
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Someone slipped into the rooms of six patients at a nursing home and cut the feeding tubes keeping them alive, police said Thursday.
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A pedestrian is in a critical condition in hospital after he was knocked down in County Londonderry.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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Sometimes, it is only when the patient is halfway out the door that important information spills out.
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar &#151; via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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One in 20 patients in Northern Ireland catches an infection while in hospital, according to a new survey.
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At least one hospital has found a way to dial down the volume on the usual din of beeping monitors and blaring intercoms.