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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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HM20 Virtual: Experts to discuss structural racism in hospital medicine
August 7, 2020
"The associations we have, and our biases, are not necessarily declared beliefs, or even reflect our stances that we explicitly endorse - sometimes it comes through in our default stance, and generally favor our in-group."
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Pride profile: Sarah Jones, PA-C
July 2, 2020
Hospitalist physician assistant Sarah Jones says her own experience has helped her advocate for LGBTQ patients.
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Pride profile: Keshav Khanijow, MD
July 1, 2020
Dr. Keshav Khanijow has leveraged his work with LGBTQ health successfully into hospital medicine projects.
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Hospitalists deal with patient discrimination
January 7, 2020
The hospital is the only place some patients will find themselves in intimate interactions with people of other ethnicities.
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Experts bring clarity to end of life difficulties
December 5, 2019
Confusing situations sometimes arise when treating patients near the end of their lives.
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Battling hospitalist burnout
September 6, 2019
Hospitalists are putting potential solutions to burnout into place.
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Best of RIV highlights practical, innovative projects
April 25, 2019
Winners included a medication reconciliation program that showed improvements across 18 centers.
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Best of RIV highlights delirium, alcohol detox, and med rec projects
March 26, 2019
A project to improve how hospitalists address inpatient delirium, which has led to reductions in length of stay and cost, took center stage on Tuesday morning at HM19 in the Best of RIV plenary session.
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Medical cannabis brings complexity to hospitals
March 26, 2019
Once a patient crosses the hospital threshold, how do you incorporate into your care a product that is still illegal at the federal level?
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Telehospitalist, workload projects win RIV competition
March 26, 2019
A program using “telehospitalists” to hasten and improve patient care won the top prize in the Innovations category of the RIV competition on Monday night at HM19.