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Celebrating Women in Hospital Medicine
September 1, 2022
September is Women in Medicine Month, a time to inspire, elevate, and recognize women and their roles in medicine. The following SHM members—recommended by members of The Hospitalist’s editorial...
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Dr. Chang’s Converge 2022 Message
July 1, 2022
Thank you for perusing and hopefully being intrigued and enlightened by our July 2022 issue of The Hospitalist, which covers highlights of SHM Converge 2022 in Nashville, Tenn. None of us...
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With a Dynamic Past and Present, There’s Little Doubt of a Dynamic Future for HM
July 1, 2022
In the late 1990s, when Robert Wachter, MD, found that his vision of and advocacy for the hospital medicine field was starting to get publicity, his father told him about a tennis game he’d...
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Hospitalists’ Jam Session
July 1, 2022
These members of the band performed in Nashville: standing (L to R): Kevin Maguire, Do, FHM, John Nelson, MD, MHM, Robert Zipper, MD, MMM, SFHM, Thomas McIlraith, MD, CLHM, SFHM, and David Lake, MD;...
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COVID-19 Has Shown the Power of HM
July 1, 2022
Amid the unspeakable tragedies and hardships that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the medical community are examples of stunning acts of innovation, compassion, and old-fashioned effort. Dr....
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High-Value Care in Pediatrics: Things We Do for No Reason
July 1, 2022
Dr. Tantoco Presenter: Mike Tchou, MD, MSc, Children’s Hospital of Colorado/University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo. Dr. Tchou began by defining value as an equation, with...
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Hospitalists Recount the Struggles of Parenting During COVID-19
July 1, 2022
Mary Fredrickson, MD, a hospitalist at HealthPartners and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, already had a hectic life before COVID-19, with four children ages 5 to 21,...
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How Hospitals Analyze and Learn from Adverse Events
July 1, 2022
Presenter: Daniel Steinberg, MD, FACP, SFHM, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York In this session, the speaker walked through the steps institutions practicing...
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Recognizing and Treating Substance Use in the Inpatient Setting
July 1, 2022
Presenters: Erin McKnight, MD, MPH, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, Hilary Lin, MD, Children’s Health Orange County, Orange County, Calif., Stephanie Kwon, DO, Medical University...
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Breaking Into Medical Education: Opportunities, Challenges, & Strategies
July 1, 2022
Dr. Mehta Presenters: Shannon K. Martin, MD, MS, SFHM, University of Chicago, Chicago, Daniel N. Ricotta, MD, SFHM, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass., and Marion Stanley, MD, Northwestern...