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    The Value of Cultural Exchange in Health Care

    August 1, 2023

    On a Tuesday in February 2002, a happy little boy left home for school. Two hours later, he started feeling unwell, and his parents were called to pick him up. The next day, he insisted on going back...

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    Experts Say Racism a Too-common Factor in Care, and Offer Fixes

    July 5, 2023

    Saying that structural racism permeates more clinical situations than hospitalists are typically aware of, a panel of speakers at SHM Converge in March offered a framework that physicians can use to...

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    Everyone Deserves to Belong

    June 1, 2023

    This month’s magazine focuses on the challenges faced by our colleagues and patients from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more (LGBTQIA+)...

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    LGBTQIA+ Hospitalists Find Their Comfort Zones

    June 1, 2023

    Hospitalists who are part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other (LGBTQIA+) community have had an array of experiences, both in medical school and...

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    LGBTQIA+ Allyship

    June 1, 2023

    Dr. O’Toole Hospitalists are in a unique position to be allies for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other (LGBTQIA+) community because they’re on the...

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    How SHM’s DEI Committee Came to Be

    April 3, 2023

    “First, do no harm.” This is the oath we take as health care providers when we enter the medical profession. And, while previously thought of as an “add-on” to research, medical education,...

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    A Time of Self Reflection

    November 17, 2022

    A Q & A with SHM member, Karla Pambogo, RN, MBA It’s an exciting time to be part of hospital medicine as there are so many opportunities to get involved. Ms. Pambogo What’s your...

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    Underrepresentation of Dermatologic Conditions in POC

    September 23, 2022

    PHM Session: Dermatologic Disease Presentations, Skin Color, and Disparities in Medical Care Presenters: Deawodi Ladzekpo, MD, and Sonya Tang Girdwood, MD, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital,...

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    Juggling Medical School, DEI, and Volunteering are All in a Day’s Work for This Med Student

    September 1, 2022

    Diversity, equity, and inclusion are three words that, rightfully, get bandied around more and more frequently. The Society of Hospital Medicine does more than bandy the words around. In support of...

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    Becoming an Ally for Gender Equity in Medicine

    July 1, 2022

    Presenters: Jennifer O’Toole, MD, MEd, SFHM, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati While there have been strides in gender equity in the practice of medicine, there’s still a long way...