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Important Lessons from Hospitalists Who Love Their Jobs
May 1, 2023
Job stress, moral injury, burnout, and the great resignation—these are very real concerns for the field of hospital medicine, exacerbated by but not limited to the unprecedented challenges of the...
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Low-dose Buprenorphine Initiation is a Safe and Effective Alternative to Standard-dose Buprenorphine in Hospitalized Patients with OUD
May 1, 2023
Dr. Vuong Clinical question: Is low-dose buprenorphine initiation in hospitalized patients safe and effective for the management of opioid use disorder (OUD)? Background: OUD is a chronic...
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Becoming a Well-being Advocate
May 1, 2023
By now, burnout and its related toll on clinicians nationwide are recognized as a pressing crisis. While burnout among U.S. health care practitioners isn’t new, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated...
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Lessons in Redeployment from Adult Hospitalists
May 1, 2023
Diverse mid-adult nurses, mature adult hospital administrators, and senior adult doctors are standing around a table in a hospital board room. They are reviewing spreadsheets and charts containing...
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Reducing Mental Health Care Barriers for Hospitalists
May 1, 2023
Clinical vignette MB is a 36-year-old woman who completed her residency three years ago. She has practiced as a hospitalist at a community hospital since that time. Throughout her time in medical...
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SIG Spotlight: Global Hospital Medicine
May 1, 2023
All of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) look to solve issues, but some are more challenging in scope than others. Those focused on the spread of interdisciplinary rounding, or the improvement...
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Chapter Spotlight: North Florida
May 1, 2023
Matthew Calestino, MD, FACP, SFHM,—along with Drs. Handel Desa and Calixto Zaldivar—helped found the North Florida chapter of SHM in 2018 with an eye toward building a cohesive network of...
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Movers and Shakers April 2023
April 27, 2023
Dr. Fleming Elizabeth Fleming, DO, has joined the staff of Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth, Minn., as a hospitalist. Dr. Fleming earned her medical degree from Des Moines...
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Turn Back the Clocks
April 18, 2023
Turn Back the Clocks Dr. Beddow is a hospitalist and hospitalist quality/safety medical director for Allina Health system in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Turn Back the Clocks is...
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Passing the Baton
April 13, 2023
Passing the Baton Ms. Shahrrava Ms. Shahrrava is a 4th-year medical student at St. George’s University School of Medicine 2023 National Hospitalist Day HM Voices Contest Winner