Bryn Nelson is a former PhD microbiologist who decided he’d much rather write about microbes than mutate them. After seven years at the science desk of Newsday in New York, Nelson relocated to Seattle as a freelancer, where he has consumed far too much coffee and written features and stories for The Hospitalist, The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, Science News for Students, Mosaic and many other print and online publications. In addition, he contributed a chapter to The Science Writers’ Handbook and edited two chapters for the six-volume Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking.
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Paring the risk of antibiotic resistance
Stewardship, monitoring, education, and thoughtful de-escalation can help avoid the overuse of sepsis drugs.
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Preventing sepsis alert fatigue
Quality improvement projects hone the art and science of sensitive and specific warnings.
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Charting a new course in sepsis management
Quality improvement initiatives help hospitalists navigate the challenges of ward-based sepsis care.
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Naloxone: Difficult conversations about a potential lifesaver
A recent study highlights the difficulties and strategies for discussing the antiopioid medication’s utility.
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SHM’s RADEO Program aids safer opioid prescribing
A new initiative is helping hospitalists design and implement better inpatient opioid prescribing strategies.
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Hospitalists struggle with opioid epidemic’s rising toll
Amid a worsening crisis, a harsh, new light illuminates the inpatient side of opioid prescriptions.
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Why Aren’t Doctors Following Guidelines?
Studies show that when guidelines are applied, patients do better—so why aren’t doctors following them?
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LISTEN NOW: Scott Sears, MD, MBA, Explains How GME Programs Could Be Better Aligned
SCOTT SEARS, MD, MBA, chief clinical officer of Tacoma, Wash.-based Sound Physicians, discusses how GME programs could be better aligned with the...
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New Bill Hopes to Increase Residency Medicare Slots after Two Previous Bills Failed
The new version again seeks to increase Medicare residency slots by 15,000 over five years, while attempting to identify physician shortage...
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Institute of Medicine Report Prompts Debate Over Graduate Medical Education Funding, Oversight
Ever since 1997, when the federal Balanced Budget Act froze Medicare’s overall funding for graduate medical education, debates have flared...
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The Difficulty of Predicting Physician Shortages
Much of the criticism directed at the IOM’s proposed revamping of federal GME funding stems from the idea that a graying population will place...
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LISTEN NOW: Yale hospitalists' brush with cancer leads to healthcare cost awareness training program
ROBERT FOGERTY, MD, MPH, a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Yale University, talks about how his own bout with cancer as a...
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LISTEN NOW: UCSF's Christopher Moriates, MD, discusses waste-reduction efforts in hospitals
CHRISTOPHER MORIATES, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, talks...
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From a Near-Catastrophe, I-CARE
For Robert Fogerty, MD, MPH, it’s more than just a story. It’s a nightmare that he only narrowly avoided. Now a hospitalist at Yale University...
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Medical Care Overuse Causes Waste, Harm in Healthcare
A trickle of anecdotes has become a flood of cautionary tales. There’s one about the patient in intensive care who didn’t have a cardiac...