When you flip through the Hospital Medicine Basics syllabus and watch the videos, you will come across a section called Scenarios in Ethics and Palliative Care. In this section, Dr. Gil Porat takes scenarios from the Ethics Section of Internal Medicine Core and drives home some key points in ethics in medicine. The situations discussed in Hospital Medicine Basics are practical scenarios, you will most likely see similar situations if you work as a hospitalist.
The situations that are presented usually have an accepted standard of care. So they make good test questions! And, since you want to make sure you are making decisions along the accepted standards of care, they make for great material for maintaining your competency.
If you haven't already, you'll want to read the first scenario: Can a suicide attempt be a DNR?
The second scenario in Hospital Medicine Basics is concerning a patient who is diagnosed with inoperable metastatic pancreatic cancer. She states "I do not want my husband to know." Her husband just left a message with your answering service to give him a call.
What do you do?
Take a second to think about what you would do in this situation before you read the accepted standard of care.
This one is straightforward. You can encourage her to inform her husband, but you should not be the one to share her diagnosis against her wishes.
In Hospital Medicine Basics, Dr. Porat covers 7 scenarios in total and gives the standard of care for each.
When you purchase Hospital Medicine Basics, you'll receive 5 videos with 2 expert speakers who go over clinical quality measurements, consultative co-management and hospital-based prevention strategies, and scenarios in ethics and palliative care. You'll also receive a comprehensive, 40+ page printed syllabus that goes over all the slides, pictures, and questions mentioned in the video lectures.