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    Breaking News: X-waiver Eliminated

    January 25, 2023

    On January 12, 2023, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced the immediate elimination of the X-waiver for...

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    What Does it Mean to Die?

    January 20, 2023

    What does it mean to die? Is it the abrupt ceasing of the heart, Or is it the transcendence into a new dimension, As your soul slowly departs.   What does it mean to die? Is death the mere...

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    Waffles

    January 19, 2023

    As a transplant, I wasn’t familiar with the city's geography. But I knew where the streets were, and that’s where we went. We all piled into the van—the outreach coordinator, nurse, attending,...

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    E/M Coding Changes for 2023

    December 13, 2022

    The last time that evaluation and management (E/M) coding guidelines were significantly overhauled was in 1995 and 1997. To put that timeframe in context? Hospitalist was a term coined in a 1996 New...

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    Should I Stay or Should I Go?

    December 12, 2022

    Twitter versus other platforms When Elon Musk bought Twitter in October it was anybody’s guess how things might change on the platform. Not even two months later the company has lost almost 67% of...

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    Persistence Paid Off for This Resident

    November 10, 2022

    A Q & A with Anna Nelson, DO, University of Louisville in Louisville, Ky. Though her path to becoming a hospitalist may not be straightforward, Dr. Nelson's tenacity has opened doors. As a...

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    Is VBG an Alternative to the Troublesome ABG?

    November 1, 2022

    Case A 70-year-old man with hypertension and insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus initially presented for evaluation of left hip pain after sustaining a mechanical fall and was found to have a...

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    SIG Spotlight: Pediatric Hospital Medicine

    November 1, 2022

    When SHM pivoted from a committee structure to its cadre of Special Interest Groups (SIGs), advocates for pediatric hospitalists grew up.  Dr. Singh “We were this small fish in a big...

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    Chapter Spotlight: New York City/Westchester

    November 1, 2022

    Every SHM Chapter in the country dealt with the crisis scenarios wrought by COVID-19. Massive upticks in patient censuses hobbled hospitalists in every state. Burnout from seemingly endless days...

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    Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Our Pandemic Journey to Everyday Advocacy

    November 1, 2022

    Dr. Kumar More than 1,000 pediatric hospitalists gathered for four educational days (July 28-31, 2022) at the Disney Yacht Club Convention Center for our first in-person Pediatric Hospital...