First Exposure To Internal Medicine: Hospital Medicine (first Exposure)

FIRST EXPOSURE TO INTERNAL MEDICINE: HOSPITAL MEDICINE To my students, from whom I learn every day; to my colleagues in internal medicine at the University of Kentucky, it’s a joy to work with you all; to my fellow clerkship directors around the country, you inspire me with your idealism and dedication; and to my family, my foundation. Charles H. Griffith III, MD, MSPH FIRST EXPOSURE TO INTERNAL MEDICINE: HOSPITAL MEDICINE Charles H. Griffith III, MD, MSPH Inpatient Internal Medicine Clerkship Director Division of General Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Andrew R. Hoellein, MD, MS Ambulatory Internal Medicine Clerkship Director Division of General Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Christopher A. Feddock, MD, MS Med-Peds Residency Program Director Division of General Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Heather E. Harrell, MD Medicine Clerkship Director Director of the Fourth Year Program University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida New York / Chicago / San Francisco / Lisbon / London / Madrid / Mexico City Milan / New Delhi / San Juan / Seoul / Singapore / Sydney / Toronto Copyright © 2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-150901-1 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-145901-4. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at [email protected] or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the right to store and retrieve one copy of the work, you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, reproduce, modify, create derivative works based upon, transmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish or s