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Acute Brain Dysfunction: A Roadmap to the Prevention and Treatment of Coma, Delirium, and Agitation in the Critically Ill Patient
July 1, 2026
Acute brain dysfunction—encompassing delirium, coma, and agitation—is one of the most common and consequential complications of critical illness, yet it remains under-recognized and...
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Hot Takes: Addiction Medicine Made Easy for the Busy Hospitalist
July 1, 2026
As opioid-related hospitalizations and overdose deaths continue to surge in the U.S., the role of hospitalists in initiating treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) has never been more urgent. Many...
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Business Updates for the Hospitalist: The Top Business Articles of 2025 that Will Change the Way You Lead, Do Your Job, and Practice Medicine
July 1, 2026
This highly engaging talk by Christopher Russo, MD, reviewed high-impact articles from outside the medical literature and examined how knowledge from fields outside medicine can change the way...
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What’s New, What Matters: Implementing the 2025 ACLS Guidelines
July 1, 2026
Jessica Nave, MD, vice president for middle revenue cycle at Emory Healthcare and assistant professor of medicine in Emory’s division of hospital medicine, both in Atlanta, summarized the updated...
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Updates from the Frontier: Large Language Models, Diagnosis, and Clinical Reasoning
July 1, 2026
In an exciting demonstration of what could be the future of diagnosis and clinical reasoning, Daniel Restrepo, MD, SFHM, went toe-to-toe with an artificial intelligence (AI) tool known as Dr. CaBot....
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When Less is More: How to Provide Less Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Treatment to Improve Outcomes
July 1, 2026
As hospitalists, we are often trained to err on the side of doing more, especially in the ways we have historically approached anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapies. Faced with the competing...
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SHM Converge 2026 Session Recommendations
February 25, 2026
SHM Converge 2026 in Nashville is packed with 20 educational tracks and more than 100 sessions. Members of The Hospitalist’s editorial board share a few of the sessions they’re excited to...
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SHM Converge 2026: Renew the Knowledge and Energy That Drives You Forward!
February 25, 2026
To my fellow hospitalists: It’s the time we look forward to all year long—our annual reunion at SHM Converge! We are eager to welcome you to Nashville later this month. Each year, SHM Converge...
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Sustaining a Career in Hospital Medicine: Insights and Evidence
July 2, 2025
Hospital medicine is a dynamic and essential field, yet sustaining a long-term career within it presents unique challenges. Inspired by narrative accounts from internists recently published in the...
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SHM Global & Rural Health Foundation Grant Recipients and CLHM Recipients
July 2, 2025
Last year, SHM launched the SHM Global & Rural Health Foundation in service of its mission to promote high-value care and optimal outcomes for acutely ill patients. Hospital-based clinicians and...