Article
The Wellness Paradox: Reconciling Care and Cost in Hospital Medicine
April 6, 2026
The hospital’s hum never really stops, regardless of the hour. Whether you’re rounding on days or doing admissions on nights, the demands are constant, and the line between doing good work and...
Article
The Patient Beyond the Chart
March 17, 2026
Every hospitalist knows the feeling: You open a new chart, and it feels like a wall. A patient with a dozen chronic conditions, care fragmented across multiple hospitals, specialists scattered across...
Article
AI Scribes and the Disconnection in Documentation
February 2, 2026
A recent headline in Forbes declared, “AI won’t replace you, a human using AI will,” highlighting the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in practice. In...
Article
AI and the Hospitalist: Between Promise and Prudence
February 2, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly moved from novelty to near inevitability in hospital medicine. While tools like ChatGPT captured public attention in 2022, AI had already been shaping...
Article
Hospitalists’ North Star
January 5, 2026
Connecting with fellow SHM members at a meeting of the newly-minted Central Florida chapter. As we sail beyond the borders of 2025 and begin our journey into 2026, many of us find ourselves...
Article
Social Prescriptions for Hospitalists in Tough Times
January 5, 2026
We knew hospital medicine was challenging when we signed up for the job: the most vulnerable members of our communities facing acute health crises; competing economic interests; continuous time...
Article
Being a Hospitalist in Your 60s and 70s
January 5, 2026
Hospital medicine is still a relatively young field. Coined as a formal term in 1996, it has since become a cornerstone of inpatient care in the U.S. The 2010s marked a significant turning point,...
Article
Geographic Cohorting — What Have We Learned?
November 3, 2025
The authors review Geographic Cohorting of Adult Inpatient Teams: A Scoping Review, recently published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine (doi:10.1002/ jhm.70096). Geographic cohorting (GCh) refers...
Article
From Genocide to Healing: The Rebirth of Cambodia’s Hospital System
October 23, 2025
In October 2023, Dr. Brodkin spent two weeks volunteering in Kampot, Cambodia, where he taught medical residents and supervised patient care at the local hospital. During that time, he developed a...
Article
Fighting the Pandemic of Misinformation
October 1, 2025
Adapted from a talk given at TEDx-Buffalo, June 2025 On November 28, 2021, scrolling through Twitter, I came across a tweet by @SailingKateMD: “Checked my ICU list after being gone for a few days...