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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...
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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...
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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 1998, it has since become a cornerstone of inpatient care in the U.S. The 2010s marked a significant turning point,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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What It Means to Lead: Motherhood, Medicine, and Redefining the Possible
September 16, 2025
Being a woman in medicine is powerful. Being a mother in medicine is redefining leadership through transformation, compassion, and resilience. On September 11, 2025, at the Society of Hospital...
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Little Feet in Big Halls: Experiencing the World of a HM Conference
July 1, 2025
SHM Converge 2025 was another successful meeting of the minds and gave me the opportunity to learn and network. This year was particularly special since the spring break of two of my children...
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The Case for Hospitalists’ Involvement in Hospital Contract Negotiations
June 24, 2025
Physician advisors and hospitalists bring indispensable value to contract negotiations between hospital systems and payers. Traditionally, contracting has been managed primarily by finance and...
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Carrying On the Timeless Mission of Medicine
June 13, 2025
It’s easy to think of the times we live in as unprecedented—for each of us, it is. Yet, as we all know, history repeats itself, and our experiences are usually not quite as unprecedented as we...