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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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    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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    Experts Offer Guidance on Transitioning Children to Adult Care

    December 1, 2022

    LAKE BUENA VISTA—Transitioning a child from pediatric to adult care can be a sensitive process fraught with anxiety, and there is fairly little guidance on how to do it well, panelists said here at...

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    In Caring for Afghan Refugees, Hospitalists Discover New Capabilities

    December 1, 2022

    LAKE BUENA VISTA—When leaders in the pediatric hospitalist service at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis were asked to lead the medical care for a mass influx of Afghan refugees after the...

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    Hospital Closures Pose Challenges to Care

    November 1, 2022

    Empty beds in a hospital room. When 10-bed Nye Regional Medical Center, in west-central Nevada, closed abruptly in 2015, it meant that the residents of the former gold-mining town of Tonopah...

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    Better Ways to Handle LGBTQIA+ Matters

    November 1, 2022

    Let’s say—said Angela Kade Goepferd, MD (they/she), medical director of the Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program at Children’s Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis—that a 12-year-old...

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