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Winning Big in MedEd: Best Practices for Optimizing Bedside Rounds for Patients and Learners
July 1, 2025
Annie Massart, MD, SFHM, a hospitalist and assistant professor in the division of hospital medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, is a well-known clinician educator and is revered for her...
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TADA! No Magic Tricks Required: Evidence-Based Delirium Management for the Hospitalist
July 1, 2025
Hospital-acquired delirium is a relatively common condition encountered by hospitalists that continues to pose several ongoing challenges, particularly in the realms of diagnosis and management. In...
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No Addiction Medicine Service? No Problem! Things You Need to Know to Care for Patients with Substance Use Disorders
July 1, 2025
Hospitalists frequently encounter patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), yet many institutions lack dedicated addiction medicine services. As opioid-related hospitalizations and overdose...
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Managing Inpatient Diabetes: Practical Pearls and Complex Scenarios
July 1, 2025
In this high-yield session, Lily Ackermann, MD, a clinical associate professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, addressed the complexities of inpatient diabetes...
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The Great Debate 2025—Controversies in Perioperative Medicine
July 1, 2025
Under the bright, early‑morning glow of a Vegas ballroom—think less blackjack table, more brightly lit lecture hall—two perioperative medicine rivals took the stage for SHM’s “Great...
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The Transformative Role of POCUS in Hospital Medicine
May 1, 2025
POCUS is a new column on point-of-care ultrasound. This column aims to explore evolving clinical applications, educational advancements, and the clinical impacts of POCUS through the insights of...
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Can Expediting Patient Discharge Past Clinical and Non-Clinical Barriers Improve Overall Hospital Throughput?
March 4, 2025
It’s 8 a.m. and the hospital is starting the day in a tough position. There are 15 patients boarding in the emergency department (ED), two patients who can be downgraded from the intensive care...
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As Wearable Monitors Proliferate, Hospitalists Weigh How to Use Them
February 3, 2025
Charumathi Raghu Subramanian, MD, a hospitalist and second-year clinical informatics fellow at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in San Francisco, remembers a patient in...
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Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Prescription Drug Costs
February 3, 2025
Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total...
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How Hospitalists Can Learn from Diagnostic Errors and Successes
February 3, 2025
Hospitalists are at the forefront of inpatient care and are well-positioned to reduce diagnostic errors while promoting diagnostic excellence. Diagnostic errors, defined as “the failure to (a)...