Thomas R. Collins
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SHM’s Leadership Academy Turns 20: Leaders Reflect on Its Impact and Evolution
July 16, 2025
Dr. Howell Early in his career, Eric Howell, MD, MHM—now the chief executive officer of the Society of Hospital Medicine—was a “prototypical hospitalist,” as he put it. He was young, and...
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JHM’s Progress Notes
May 1, 2025
Hospitalists would tend to agree that it’s great that medical journals are published every month to provide clinicians and healthcare practitioners with new research findings and perspectives that...
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What Hospitalists Should Know About ICE Visits
April 18, 2025
In the course of a hectic day with a huge patient load, the last thing a hospitalist might expect to handle is a visit from immigration officials demanding access to a patient the federal government...
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JHM Thinks Outside the Box with Innovations Corner and Point-Counterpoint
February 3, 2025
Realizing that patients cared for at rural and critical-access hospitals struggle with access to interventional endoscopy procedures at tertiary care centers, a Minnesota hospital began a bold...
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As Wearable Monitors Proliferate, Hospitalists Weigh How to Use Them
February 3, 2025
Charumathi Raghu Subramanian, MD, a hospitalist and second-year clinical informatics fellow at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, remembers a patient in...
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Journal Series Aims to Demystify Publishing Process
October 1, 2024
JHM editors share their insights With a long-running sense that hospitalists often feel in the dark about how to get published, Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM) editors decided it was time to...
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Navigating the Promotion Process
August 1, 2024
When she joined the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas as a junior member in 2011, Christiana Renner, MD received mentorship in areas such as clinical care and...
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Psychological Safety a Must for HM Education
November 14, 2023
When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the sky in 1986, a group of engineers’ fears had come true: They had known a critical failure was possible at the low temperatures that were seen...
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Rebuilding Trust a Top Priority for Hospitalists
November 14, 2023
In addition to all of the more obvious effects such as deaths and lingering comorbidities wrought by the disease, a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon took hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather...
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Harm to Patients in Hospital Calls for Transparency
November 14, 2023
When unexpected events happen in the hospital, resulting in harm to a patient, having early and transparent conversations with patients and families is the key to getting to the best resolution,...