Larry Beresford is an Oakland, Calif.-based freelance medical journalist with a breadth of experience writing about the policy, financial, clinical, management and human aspects of hospice, palliative care, end-of-life care, death, and dying. He is a longtime contributor to The Hospitalist, for which he covers re-admissions, pain management, palliative care, physician stress and burnout, quality improvement, waste prevention, practice management, innovation, and technology. He also contributes to Medscape. Learn more about his work at www.larryberesford.com; follow him on Twitter @larryberesford.
News
Rheumatology fellows learn about career opportunities
Rheumatology is not one of the higher-paid medical specialties, but its practitioners have found other reasons for career fulfillment in their...
News
New rheumatologists need insurance awareness to give best care
Rheumatologists need to know how drug utilization management techniques impose unwanted alternatives on their patients’ care, and then use their...
News
ED docs seek accountability for violence committed by patients
Acts of violence targeting the professionals who staff America’s emergency departments have gotten significantly worse.
News
Should patients with PsA or ankylosing spondylitis with axial disease be ‘lumped’ or ‘split’?
Patients with isolated axial psoriatic arthritis (PsA) were older at diagnosis, more likely to have psoriatic nail lesions, and less likely to...
News
Autoimmune disease patients’ waxing, waning response to COVID vaccination studied in-depth
Patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases have weaker vaccine-induced immunity to COVID but are able to build a humoral immune response...
News
ED staff speak out about workplace violence, ask for mitigation
How much is workplace violence contributing to the great resignation in health care and what might be done to make clinicians feel more supported...
News
Does morning discharge really improve hospital throughput?
Focus on the actual processes that create bottlenecks preventing throughput.
News
Telemedicine, triaging, remote monitoring top list of COVID-era innovations in oncology
“We had assumed that telemedicine would be the wave of the future and cancer patients would love it.” – Aaron Begue
News
Hospitalists helped plan COVID-19 field hospitals
Better to plan for too much than not plan for enough, say hospitalists who helped build COVID-19 field hospitals.
News
Most community physicians say clinical pathways improve care
Oncology clinical pathways were adopted by more health care providers this year, a new survey shows.
News
Rural hospitalists confront COVID-19
Hospital medicine continues to extend into rural communities and small rural hospitals.
News
COVID vaccine controversies: How can hospitalists help?
Hospitalists need to pull whatever levers they can to help advance understanding of vaccines.
News
Hospitalists address patient experience during the pandemic
“A lot of the care hospitalists provide involves touch, sitting down and looking at the patient eye to eye, on the same level.” says Dr. Minesh...
News
Hospital disaster preparation confronts COVID
“We weren’t able to grasp the scale [of COVID-19] at the outset. It does defy the imagination,” said Dr. Jason Persoff.
News
Professional versus facility billing: What hospitalists must know
Hospitalists don’t often realize how much impact they have on their hospital’s revenue cycle and quality.