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    Room 12-240

    July 31, 2025

    “What’s the story?” I ask as I walk into room 12-240. I’ve done this dance so many times today in so many different rooms all over the tower. The patient I face now is unknown to me. Strands...

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    Heart in Bloom

    July 31, 2025

      "Heart in Bloom" is a 2025 National Hospitalist Day HM Voices Contest Winner "I was on my cardiology service when I painted this piece. The hospital I was rotating at had its mission...

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    Lung POCUS: The Hospitalist’s New Stethoscope

    July 31, 2025

    In the time it takes to order, perform, and upload a stat chest X-ray, a skilled clinician with an ultrasound probe can diagnose an early pneumothorax, confirm pulmonary edema, or eyeball a...

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    Beyond the Hospital’s Four Walls

    July 31, 2025

    When, in their classic 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, announced the emergence of the hospitalist concept, they defined it in terms of doctors...

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    A Hospitalist’s Preparedness Guide for Working in Behavioral Health Centers

    July 31, 2025

    Hospitalists began branching out from traditional general medical wards into specialized fields such as cardiology and oncology many years ago. One of the latest evolutions in hospital medicine is...

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    An In-Depth Look at Locum Tenens Work

    July 31, 2025

    Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine...

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    CAN Framework: Leadership Essentials for Early Career Hospitalists

    July 31, 2025

    Hospital medicine leaders drive change, inspire teams, and shape the future of medicine. Early career hospitalists—those out of residency for five years or less—often face unique challenges in...

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    SIG Spotlight: Perioperative/Co-Management

    July 31, 2025

    Every SHM special interest group (SIG) is focused on the future, but not every initiative is seeing the kind of growth trend lines of the society’s Perioperative/Co-Management SIG. Dr....

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    Chapter Spotlight: Maine

    July 31, 2025

    When you know, you know—and Taylor Roberts, MD, knows the value of an SHM chapter. So after a few trips to SHM Converge during her residency in Dallas, she knew when she moved to Maine two years...

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    The Primary Drivers of Burnout

    July 30, 2025

    I have read many essays on physician burnout over the years. However, I feel that the nail has yet to be hit directly on the head regarding this insidious scourge afflicting our profession. Most...