SHM’s 2025 State of Hospital Medicine Report
August 14, 2025
SHM is excited to announce the publication of the 2025 State of Hospital Medicine Report. The Report, based on data from 2024, is a snapshot of what is happening across hospital medicine groups. We...
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The Care and Feeding of Your Nocturnist: A Field Guide for Diurnals
August 12, 2025
By Someone Who Regrets Writing This at 3:12 a.m. It is a curious feature of modern medical ecosystems that diurnal creatures—those brisk, tie-wearing types or business casual disciples of...
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Charting a Legacy: The Origins of the SHM Leadership Academy
August 12, 2025
The Genesis of a Vision The SHM Leadership Academy may be celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, but the origin story began much earlier. The narrative is not just one of organizational growth,...
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The ABCs of Hospitalist Leadership in Graduate Medical Education: Advancing Care, Building Community, and Creating Opportunity
July 31, 2025
As we celebrated National Hospitalist Day 2025 and reflect on this year’s theme—the ABCs of Hospitalists’ impact—Advancing care, Building community, and Creating opportunity—it is fitting...
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The Love in Medicine
July 31, 2025
The excitement of loving medicine stems from its unique blend of science, compassion, and problem-solving. Medicine is not merely a profession; it is a calling that intertwines the pursuit of...
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Different Spheres
July 31, 2025
Shana* was a young adult admitted for more than two weeks with a painful sickle cell episode when our team came on service. Even though I knew her from a previous admission, she was wary of so many...
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Going Home
July 31, 2025
She promised herself that this would be the last time, no matter what. She is tired and wants to go home. This is the visit that tipped the scale. Literally. That damn scale was the source of this...
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Oshibana
July 31, 2025
Your arms, crooked in the crevices of stark hospital white the bloom of tulips on fleece blanketing like knobby, gnarly trunks of aged birch trees that have learned to grow parallel with each...
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The Quarterback of Your Care Team
July 31, 2025
“He’s way too smart—he should’ve gone into fellowship.” That’s what an internal medicine resident said to me one weekend, referring to a colleague who had just signed on to join our...
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New Horizon
July 31, 2025
I painted this in response to the pandemic/at the height of the pandemic—when the death rate was high, and it looked like the whole world that we knew prior was shrinking away and may be...