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SHM Hill Day 2025
January 5, 2026
SHM Members attended SHM’s annual Hill Day this fall to advocate for hospitalists and their patients It was standing room only at the morning debrief as members of SHM’s Public Policy...
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ED Boarding Practices: The Good, the Bad, and the Bright Spots
January 5, 2026
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) has become commonplace at many hospitals, which can cause bottlenecks and negatively affect patients. Fortunately, hospitalists have found some...
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Essential, Yet Unsettled: H-1B Hospitalists
January 5, 2026
Maheswara Reddy Koppula, MD, who was born in India and now works as a physician in the U.S., had fulfilled the requirements of his J-1 visa, which required him to work in a medically underserved...
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A Quality Improvement Initiative Significantly Improves Critical-Care Billing on a Pediatric Hospital Medicine Service
January 5, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: How can pediatric hospitalists improve critical-care billing and documentation for hospitalized pediatric patients? BACKGROUND: Appropriate billing significantly impacts hospital...
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Leading Hospital Medicine Forward Through Connection, Advocacy, and Excellence
December 1, 2025
It is truly an incredible time. Even as we witness the immense and rapid growth of our specialty and the dynamic evolution of medicine, we find ourselves asking critical questions about the...
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Lessons from the Courtroom: PHM Malpractice Cases
November 5, 2025
PHM 2025 Session Recap One of the most terrifying and potentially career-altering experiences in medicine is being named in a malpractice lawsuit. Although many deep-seated emotions exist in this...
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A Comparative View of Chinese and American Hospitals
October 1, 2025
The hospital experience can be intimidating for the uninitiated. For hospitalists, however, the hospital is a second home—an environment where we manage patient care with familiarity and...
SHM’s 2025 State of Hospital Medicine Report
August 14, 2025
SHM is excited to announce the publication of the 2025 State of Hospital Medicine Report. The Report, based on data from 2024, is a snapshot of what is happening across hospital medicine groups. We...
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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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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...