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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...

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    Resilience

    July 31, 2025

    The COVID-19 pandemic was very stressful on hospitalists; however, through our tenacity and resilience, we continue to shine through. Watercolor 2025 National Hospitalist Day HM Voices Contest...

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    Operative Versus Non-Operative Treatment of Acute Cholecystitis in Older Adults with Multiple Comorbidities–Advocating for Definitive Care

    July 31, 2025

    Clinical question: In patients 65 years and older, with multimorbidity, and presenting with acute cholecystitis, is operative treatment more efficacious than non-operative treatment? Background:...