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Thomas R. Collins

Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe gathering conference health news and lives in West Palm Beach.

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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,...

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    Experts Offer Tips to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Hospital Medicine

    November 14, 2023

    When it comes to job satisfaction, many hospitalists might find themselves in a kind of in-between posture: Their jobs are, well, mostly fine. Dr. Pierce But Read Pierce, MD, chief of hospital...

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    Research is Possible—and Vital—as a Hospitalist

    November 14, 2023

    When you’re in the middle of yet another impossibly busy week, making time for research in hospital medicine might seem next to impossible. But it is possible—and enormously important for the...

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    Immigrant Hospitalists Share Struggles and Discuss Paths to Progress

    October 2, 2023

    Harkesh Arora, MD, a hospitalist at Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, N.M., said she has grown sad and frustrated by her long—and, so far, futile—effort to obtain an EB-1A, an...

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    Rounding Project Wins Shark Tank Competition

    July 5, 2023

    Dr. Franco A project intending to help optimize how rounding is performed in hospitals won this year’s Research Shark Tank competition at SHM Converge in March, coming after a compelling set of...

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    Retaining Physicians is Crucial and Can be Hard—But It’s Possible

    July 5, 2023

    Employee retention sign and figurines on the memo sticks. As he stood before the audience talking about the high rate at which physicians are leaving health care, and the challenges to retaining...

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    Experts Say Racism a Too-common Factor in Care, and Offer Fixes

    July 5, 2023

    Saying that structural racism permeates more clinical situations than hospitalists are typically aware of, a panel of speakers at SHM Converge in March offered a framework that physicians can use to...

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    Doctors Should Play a Role in Preventing Climate-change-related Health Matters

    February 1, 2023

    A 5-year-old with second-degree burns on their hands and thighs after playing on a playground with a metal structure in direct sunlight. A 7-year-old child presenting with altered mental status and a...

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