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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.

  • News

    Hospital Medicine 2016 Brims with Lively Talks, Record Crowds in San Diego

    March 23, 2016

    Yes, it rained some in dry San Diego—for the first time in a month, according to locals. But that was the extent of the disappointment at HM16—SHM’s annual meeting highlighted by inspiring words from the U.S.

  • Audio

    LISTEN NOW: Kendall Rogers, MD, SFHM, Discusses Hm16’s New Health IT Track

    February 8, 2016

    Kendall Rogers, MD, SFHM, chair of SHM’s Health IT Committee, discusses HM16 having a separate track for health IT, to whom the track is geared, and translating tech-savviness into actually being effective in helping to develop practical health IT. [audio mp3="http://www.the-hospitalist.org/wp-co

  • Audio

    LISTEN NOW: Course Director Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, Chats HM16

    February 8, 2016

    Course Director Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, talks about the SHM annual meeting's new emphasis on work-life balance and on how her past experience at the annual meeting influenced how she helped shape this year's meeting. [audio mp3="http:

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    Six Strategies to Help Hospitalists Improve Communication

    February 8, 2016

    As Karen Smith, MD, SFHM, chief of hospital medicine at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., sees it, communication problems often arise at the first possible opportunity, when she’s trying to find out whom to call when she needs to inform a primary care physician or specialist abo

  • News

    Health IT Chief, Hospital Medicine ‘Godfather’ Headline SHM Annual Meeting Keynotes

    January 23, 2016

    Health information technology (IT) will take center stage early and often at this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, acting assistant secretary for health in the U.S.

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    HM16 Takes a Look at Health IT, Post-Acute Care

    January 20, 2016

    Take a look at the HM16 program, and you get a snapshot of the most pressing topics in hospital medicine.

  • News

    Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, Offers Inside Scoop on HM16 Educational Offerings

    January 19, 2016

    HM16 course director Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, took some time out of her busy schedule to chat with The Hospitalist about how the annual meeting program comes together, the continued relevance of SHM meetings, resisting the lure

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    San Diego Hospitalist Weijen Chang, MD, SFHM, Offers Suggestions on Things to Do at HM16

    January 16, 2016

    Weijen Chang, MD, SFHM, associate clinical professor at the University of California at San Diego, has a concern: If people attending HM16 don’t get out and about, he worries, they might leave with the impression that his town is sort of, well, normal. “San Diego is a very laid-back place in gene

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    Hospital Medicine 2016 Expands, Offers ‘Something for Everyone’

    January 14, 2016

    If you can’t find anything that interests you at HM16, check your caffeine level.

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    Hospital Medicine 2016 Returns to San Diego

    January 13, 2016

    More than 3,000 hospitalists, nurses, administrators, medical residents, and students will ensconce themselves in Spanish Revival architecture, palm trees, fish tacos, and the latest in hospital medicine education March 6–9, converging at the San Diego Convention Center for the 2016 SHM annual meeti

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