• Case report 

    Kurukulasuriya, Damascene (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-12)
    A 62 year old female was admitted to the hospital for elective, two-stage spinal surgery. She had a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, anemia, subclinical hypothyroidism, mild mental retardation, Ogilvie's ...
  • From the journals 

    Kurukulasuriya, Damascene (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-01)
    Five article citations of interest to hospitalists.
  • Novel care centers : their impact on hospitalization and hospitalists 

    Kurukulasuriya, Damascene (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2009-05)
    Timely, affordable primary care is increasingly inaccessible for many patients, especially for the growing population of those disenfranchised by the health care system; these individuals have increasingly relied on Emergency ...
  • The polymorphism of hospitalists 

    Kurukulasuriya, Damascene (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2010-04)
    As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, the number of hospitalists has mushroomed and the nature of their work has become highly diversified. This article explores this phenomenon and offers a lexicon for the ...