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Hospitalist Jill Slater Waldman, MD, SFHM, Watched the Field Grow Up But Thinks Peers Deserve More Credit
June 29, 2016
Jill Slater Waldman, MD, SFHM, loved math and science and working with people, so a career in medicine was always the logical choice. She just didn’t want to leave a hospital, literally.
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Stella Fitzgibbons, MD, FHM, Relishes the Variety, Interactions of Hospitalist Practice
May 25, 2016
Stella Fitzgibbons, MD, FHM, was an engineer for several years after college. But there wasn’t enough working with people for her taste. So she moved into internal medicine.
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Is Email an Endangered Species?
May 10, 2016
Forty-five years ago, an engineer in Boston sent an electronic message between two computers some 10 feet apart.
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SHM Seats Its First Non-Physician Board Member
May 9, 2016
New Society of Hospital Medicine board member Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM, isn’t on the board because she’s a nurse practitioner (NP).
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Society of Hospital Medicine Awards 3 Master in Hospital Medicine Designation
April 10, 2016
SAN DIEGO—Add three more names to the short list of individuals who’ve reached the peak of the specialty. The Master in Hospital Medicine (MHM) designation, introduced in 2010, honors “highly accomplished individuals” who have made major contributions to HM.
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Potential Dangers of Using Technology in Healthcare
March 17, 2016
The incident that perhaps most fully impressed the potential dangers of electronic health records (EHRs) on hospitalist pioneer Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, came two years ago.
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Private Insurers to Reap Bulk of Spending on Hospitalized Patient Care
December 29, 2015
Spending on care of hospitalized patients is expected to pass $1 trillion in 2015, a new high. Thomas Selden, PhD, of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently asked where that money is likely to go. The answer: private insurers. Dr.
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Press Ganey Executive Urges Physicians to Embrace Hospital Medicine Care Model
December 16, 2015
James Merlino, MD, president and CMO of Press Ganey's strategic consulting division, wants to convince physicians around the country that hospital medicine is good healthcare as a whole. “[Hospitalists] are the holistic scorekeepers for a variety of medical conditions that a lot of physicians don
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Hospitalist Enjoys Mentoring Residents on Patient Care Practices
December 1, 2015
[caption id="attachment_12254" align="alignright" width="295"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] From 2003 to 2007, Joshua LaBrin, MD, FACP, SFHM, completed his residency in the University of Pittsburgh’s internal medicine/pediatrics program.
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Nursing Care Top-Ranked Factor in Pediatric Inpatient Satisfaction Survey
November 17, 2015
A recent patient satisfaction survey that ranked nursing care as the most important factor within inpatient pediatric care settings comes as no surprise to the chair of SHM’s Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Committee. Published online last month in the American Journal of Medical Quality,
