All posts by John Nelson, MD, MHM, FACP

It’s very unusual for hospitalists to achieve top quartile performance on the Physician Communication domain of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and …Read More

Some things I’ve been thinking about:

Physician well-being, morale, and burnout seem to be getting more attention in both the medical and the lay …Read More

“Nocturnist years are like dog years. So really we’re celebrating you for 105 years of service!”

Shawn Lee, MD, a day shift hospitalist at Overlake …Read More

I devoted an entire column to the idea of a citizenship bonus in November 2011. At that time I expressed some ambivalence about its …Read More

I’m often asked about effective roles for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), collectively known as advanced practice clinicians (APCs). My first response …Read More

While in medical school, I learned about what was then called GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) and we now know as HIV/AIDS. I thought this …Read More

Dear Hospital Executive,

If you are like many of the hospital leaders with whom I regularly talk, you’re probably concerned that your hospitalist program isn’t …Read More

I first became aware of measuring customer satisfaction when a service manager at a car dealership explained in an upbeat way that I would …Read More

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has too many new payment models for a practicing doctor to keep up with them all. …Read More