Specialty hospitalists evolving model addresses complexity and volume challenges in BayCare Health System and other U.S.

Leon Vangerud breathed deeply as the doctor pressed the stethoscope against his 83-year-old chest and back. "You're not getting dizzy anymore?" Dr. Muhammed Shaikh asked. "Once in a while. Not bad," ...

NEW YORK Now, the medical system is offering these office doctors some help. Dr. Dahlia Rizk may look like just another doctor making rounds on her hospitalized patients. But she is actually a ...

CHICAGO – The old-fashioned, family doctor style of medicine could be lifesaving for elderly hospitalized patients, a big study suggests, showing benefits over a rapidly expanding alternative that has ...

Doctors are relying increasingly on hospitalists — a relatively new specialty of physician who takes over the care of critically ill patients once they are admitted to a hospital. Keith Seinfeld of ...

The largest growing specialty in medicine is the hospitalist, an internist who develops special training in the care of hospitalized patients. He has no contact with patients either prior to or ...

Financial backers of IPC The Hospitalist Co. are banking that one of the hottest trends in health care staffing is something investors might want to get a piece of. The North Hollywood-based ...