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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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    Foresight and hard work – not inevitability – shaped HM, CEO says

    May 3, 2017

    “The future fits what hospital medicine is all about: We’re about value, we’re about creating the new future,” SHM CEO Dr. Laurence Wellikson said during his plenary address Wednesday.

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    Forum focuses on forging Q.I. connections

    May 3, 2017

    Scrounging for information that could help her with quality improvement (Q.I.) projects, Charmaine Lewis, MD, MPH, the quality director with New Hanover Hospitalists in Wilmington, N.C., said she finds herself reviewing posters at the Annual Meeting and squinting at the images to see whether the...

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    Hospitalists offer tips on QI projects

    May 3, 2017

    Anjala Tess, MD, a hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, asked the audience how many of them had done a quality improvement project that had failed. It was not a time to be bashful: Almost half the hospitalists ...

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    Workshop to help hospitalists with patient flow

    May 3, 2017

    Thursday at HM17, a panel of experts will lead small workshops of audience members on how to put the “go” back in the flow.

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    Diabetes specialist to offer disease management tips

    May 3, 2017

    An endocrinologist will walk the audience through four major points on caring for diabetes patients in a talk to be given Thursday at HM17.

  • News

    Culture change necessary to weed out health care overuse

    May 3, 2017

    Chris Moriates, MD, assistant dean for healthcare value and associate professor of medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, drew insight from writer David Foster Wallace on Tuesday afternoon as he discussed overuse in hospital care.He cited a story by Wallace: Two young...

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    Experts to review ‘hot topics’ in pediatric hospital medicine research

    May 3, 2017

    Two pediatric hospitalists reviewed every issue from 18 relevant journals over the last year and chose studies that involve important, evolving clinical questions that any physician caring for hospitalized children should know about.

  • News

    Hospitalists can do better at end-of-life care, expert says

    May 3, 2017

    High-value care can remain elusive for the most vulnerable of populations.

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    On the big stage, SHM leaders discuss pressing issues

    May 2, 2017

    Dr. Brian Harte and Dr. Ron Greeno talk about the path forward for SHM.

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    Attendees drill down on infections at ID boot camp

    May 2, 2017

    If you haven't seen any cases of Candida auris yet, you will soon, one expert predicts.

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