Richard Quinn
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Chapter Spotlight: Kansas
May 1, 2024
All SHM chapters talk about getting early-career hospitalists more involved. The Kansas chapter puts its money where its mouth is. Dr. Rafiq Its president, Ali Rafiq, MD, FACP, first got...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Fellowships
May 1, 2024
Being a new kid on the block can be daunting, even in the world of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Longer-standing SIGs have board protocols, event schedules, and a history to rely on when...
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SIG Spotlight: Interhospital Transfers
March 1, 2024
SHM prides itself on connecting teams of like-minded physicians who don’t otherwise have folks they can connect with on their chosen niche within hospital medicine. But what happens when that...
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Chapter Spotlight: San Diego
March 1, 2024
Ali Farkhondehpour, MD, FACP, FHM, was a third-year medical student who got involved in SHM early in his career, so it likely wouldn’t surprise anyone he’s risen to president of its San Diego...
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SIG Spotlight: Physician Advisors
February 1, 2024
Physician advisors are responsible for a lot. Their work exists at the intersection of clinical matters and revenue. Think clinical documentation, hospital quality measures, length-of-stay...
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Chapter Spotlight: Maryland
February 1, 2024
If there’s one struggle that all SHM chapters know well, it’s engagement. Evelyn Gathecha, MD, FACP, FHM, tackles the issue head-on as president of the Maryland outpost. Dr....
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SIG Spotlight: Health IT
January 2, 2024
The world of 2024 isn’t your grandfather’s health information technology (IT). Heck, it’s not even the world that existed when the first iPhone debuted in 2007. The breakneck pace of health IT...
Chapter Spotlight: Hampton Roads
January 2, 2024
The Hampton Roads chapter of SHM in southeastern Virginia was long run by Dr. Thom Miller, so a few years ago when he recruited Gwendolyn Williams, (@GwentheDoctor), MD, FHM, as his successor, she...
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ChatGPT and AI: How Does Health Care Handle 1.0?
December 1, 2023
Health care, including hospital medicine, isn’t exactly known as the professional land of early adopters—and for good reason. The regulations that govern the care of hospitalized patients...
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SIG Spotlight: Night Medicine
December 1, 2023
When hospitalist Neil Desai, MD, started as a night doctor, he would get the same question for years. It came from colleagues and family members alike—and no one meant anything by it. They just...