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.
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Moral distress in the COVID era weighs on hospitalists
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- Larry Beresford
“The volume of deaths and the apparent dangers to providers themselves reflect some of the critical aspects of war,” Dr. Asken said.
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Hospital medicine around the world
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- Larry Beresford
Adaptations of the hospitalist model vary across countries, reflecting local culture, payment models, and medical education.
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SHM CEO Eric Howell likes to fix things
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- Larry Beresford
“It turns out medicine in the hospital is just as specialized as any other specialty.” – Dr. Eric Howell
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Weight loss may be paramount lifestyle change in preventing gout
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- Larry Beresford
“Don’t lose sight of the lifestyle risk factors, which are interrelated. This is not only the responsibility of one doctor or the other,” said Dr...
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COVID redefines curriculum for hospitalists-in-training
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- Larry Beresford
The COVID-19 pandemic forced medical schools to get back to basics.
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Rationale for baricitinib’s use in COVID-19 patients demonstrated
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- Larry Beresford
“We went from modeling and mechanistic investigations to clinical tests in a number of settings and laboratory analysis in record time,” Dr....
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Burnout risk may be exacerbated by COVID crisis
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- Larry Beresford
“The biggest source of support for many hospitalists, beyond their family, is the group,” said Dr. Clarissa Barnes.
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Twelve medical groups pen letter opposing UHC copay accumulator program
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- Larry Beresford
“We see policies like this as sacrificing patients to the battle over high drug prices,” said Dr. Christopher Phillips.
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Hospitalists are natural leaders in the COVID-19 battle
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- Larry Beresford
Hospitalists have played leading roles in their health systems’ response to the pandemic.
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Role of aspirin explored in primary prevention of CVD in systemic rheumatic diseases
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- Larry Beresford
“The message for rheumatologists is it needs to be prescribed on an individual basis, rather than based on diagnosis of a rheumatic condition – at...
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Hospital medicine in a worldwide pandemic
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- Larry Beresford
Scope of practice for the hospitalist model continues to evolve, with increased demand for comanagement roles.
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NYC public hospitals rose to the demands of the COVID-19 crisis
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- Larry Beresford
“We hospitalists, and all those recruited to act as hospitalists, essentially took responsibility for the COVID response.”
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Hospitalists confront administrative, financial challenges of COVID-19 crisis
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- Larry Beresford
The COVID-19 crisis may present an opportunity for hospital medicine to rapidly explore different models.
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Value of palliative care shines clearly in a crisis
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- Larry Beresford
Hospitalists have played key roles in clarifying and redefining the new role for palliative care during the pandemic.
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How can hospitalists address health disparities for LGBTQ+ patients?
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- Larry Beresford
LGBTQ patients suffer worse health outcomes, relative to patients who are heterosexual and cis-gender.