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Beyond Pronouns: A Hospitalist’s Guide to Understanding the Medical and Physical Aspects of Gender-Affirming Care
November 1, 2023
Dr. Hamlin Presenters: Kimberly Horstman, MD, and Taylor Rosenbaum, MD This PHM 2023 session aimed to educate hospitalists about the continuum of gender-affirming care, the side effects of...
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Geographic Information Systems
November 1, 2023
A six-year-old patient admitted to a hospital medicine service due to status asthmaticus is a common occurrence in pediatric hospitalists nationwide. But what if the questions about why the patient...
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Advancing Your Skillset to Become a Modern Leader for Equity
November 1, 2023
Dr. Abd-Rabu Presenters: Jennifer K. O’Toole, MD, MEd, Vineeta Mittal, MD, MBA, Neha H. Shah, MD, MPH, and Nancy Spector, MD This PHM 2023 session encapsulated a dynamic exploration into the...
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Women Hospitalists Supporting Women
September 1, 2023
One of the most powerful displays of support among women is when they show up for each other in their professions. This is especially true in hospital medicine, where women have made significant...
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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,...