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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...

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    SIG Spotlight: Multi-site Leaders

    August 1, 2024

    When you’ve seen one hospital-medicine group, as the saying goes, you’ve seen one hospital-medicine group. But when you’ve seen one multi-site hospital-medicine group, chances are you’ve...

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    Chapter Spotlight: New Hampshire and Vermont

    August 1, 2024

    Perhaps the best description of SHM’s combined New Hampshire and Vermont chapter is camaraderie and curriculum, with a dash of snow. Dr. Krawitt “We’re creating…a kind of neighborhood...

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    Facing the Inevitable: Cyberattacks in Healthcare

    June 3, 2024

    Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, FAMIA, SFHM has been a hospitalist for 20 years, and a board-certified clinical informatician for the last eight years. But the cyberattack on UnitedHealthcare unit...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pee Dee

    June 3, 2024

    COVID-19 was brutal on SHM chapters nationwide, immediately forcing events to teleconference technology and eliminating the in-person networking and education that has become a staple of the...

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    SIG Spotlight: Patient Experience

    June 3, 2024

    Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...

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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...