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    Chapter Spotlight: Arizona

    February 3, 2025

    The Arizona chapter of SHM faced a challenge in 2021 when its founding hospitalists saw their practice shift from inpatient medicine to primary care. At that point, many of the members of the chapter...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospital at Home

    February 3, 2025

    Everyone knows the concept of hospital at home care. It’s institutional-level medical treatment delivered in the confines of a Cape Cod or a two-bedroom apartment, either in person or through...

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    SIG Spotlight: Palliative Care

    December 2, 2024

    For Elizabeth Gundersen, MD, FAAHPM, FHM, chair of SHM’s Palliative Care Special Interest Group, caring for patients at the end of their lives is a labor of love. But, in death just like life,...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Long Island

    December 2, 2024

    For some early career hospitalists, it can take years to realize the value of networking. Some practitioners in their first years on the job can get caught up in the day-to-day work and not...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Nebraska

    November 1, 2024

    Mohammed Zalabani, MD, FHM, had just stepped away from a directorship role and was looking for less leadership responsibility and more time with “my kids and my family and my house and my...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    November 1, 2024

    Medical schools teach a lot of material in a short time, and residencies and fellowships help round out the training that makes hospitalists good at what they do. But nowhere in that learning curve...

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    SIG Spotlight: Hospitalist Well-Being

    October 1, 2024

    A safe, compassionate space to address the systemic nature of the problem Well-being, at least in hospitalist circles, can’t mean a once-a-year yoga session. In the view of, Swati Mehta, MD,...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pittsburgh

    October 1, 2024

    Reimagining the chapter as members and their needs evolve In Pittsburgh, someone who identifies with the city is called a Yinzer. And Yinzers tend to stick around. That’s as true in the old steel...

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    SIG Spotlight: Oncology Hospitalists

    September 3, 2024

    A lot of hospital medicine goes back to the mid-1990s when the term was first coined and the budding specialty’s first bricks were laid. Dr. Hodde Dealing with cancer as an inpatient expert...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Sacramento

    September 3, 2024

    Most chapters for SHM begin with a gaggle of hospitalists meeting up and becoming friends, bound by shared work experience. Things work differently in the Sacramento chapter, founded as a...