The day may be coming when you have an office doctor and a hospital doctor. Hospitalists, doctors who exclusively care for hospitalized patients, work at most local hospitals. Lancaster General ...

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," ...

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 ...

Sometimes at the end of their hospital stay, patients ask Dr. Muhammad Malik for his card. Where’s your clinic, they ask, I’d love you to be my primary care provider. Malik shakes his head with a ...

“Hospital medicine is going through another phase of adjustment, the pressures are not just theoretical, they are real,” said ...

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 ...

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 ...