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SHM Converge 2024: Message from the Course Director
February 23, 2024
If you’re anything like me, you need something to look forward to in the spring after the dark days of winter. Enter Converge 2024, in sunny San Diego, April 12-15! On behalf of the Annual...
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Things to Do in Sunny San Diego
February 23, 2024
The historic aircraft carrier, USS Midway Museum moored in Broadway Pier in San Diego. SHM Converge 2024 is just around the corner, taking place from April 12 to 15. While noting down the...
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Editorial Board Picks for Must-Attend Converge 2024 Sessions
February 23, 2024
If you’re attending SHM Converge 2024 in San Diego in April, you’ve probably already checked out the jam-packed schedule and may have even started circling the sessions you want to attend. We...
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Psychological Safety a Must for HM Education
November 14, 2023
When the space shuttle Challenger exploded in the sky in 1986, a group of engineers’ fears had come true: They had known a critical failure was possible at the low temperatures that were seen...
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Rebuilding Trust a Top Priority for Hospitalists
November 14, 2023
In addition to all of the more obvious effects such as deaths and lingering comorbidities wrought by the disease, a somewhat counterintuitive phenomenon took hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather...
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Harm to Patients in Hospital Calls for Transparency
November 14, 2023
When unexpected events happen in the hospital, resulting in harm to a patient, having early and transparent conversations with patients and families is the key to getting to the best resolution,...
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Experts Offer Tips to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Hospital Medicine
November 14, 2023
When it comes to job satisfaction, many hospitalists might find themselves in a kind of in-between posture: Their jobs are, well, mostly fine. Dr. Pierce But Read Pierce, MD, chief of hospital...
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Research is Possible—and Vital—as a Hospitalist
November 14, 2023
When you’re in the middle of yet another impossibly busy week, making time for research in hospital medicine might seem next to impossible. But it is possible—and enormously important for the...
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Immigrant Hospitalists Share Struggles and Discuss Paths to Progress
October 2, 2023
Harkesh Arora, MD, a hospitalist at Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, N.M., said she has grown sad and frustrated by her long—and, so far, futile—effort to obtain an EB-1A, an...
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Improving Communications Between ED and Hospitalist Physicians, Viewpoints from Both Perspectives
July 5, 2023
Dr. Michael and Dr. Andrew Pfeffer are brothers who each presented a side of the emergency department(ED)/hospitalist points of conflict. They set the scope of the talk with data from 2020 that there...