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Healthcare Worker Well-Being After a 5-hour Continuous Communication and Intervention: The Well-B Randomized Clinical Trial
May 1, 2025
Clinical question: Does a brief continuing education intervention improve the well-being of healthcare workers (HCWs)? Background: HCWs’ well-being has been severely impacted, particularly after...
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Experts Offer Tips to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Hospital Medicine
November 14, 2023
When it comes to job satisfaction, many hospitalists might find themselves in a kind of in-between posture: Their jobs are, well, mostly fine. Dr. Pierce But Read Pierce, MD, chief of hospital...
Gratitude is Good for Us
November 1, 2023
As our discussion about discharge ended, Ms. Jones, stooped, her thin grey hair pulled back, and moved slowly toward her husband’s hospital bed. Gently, she stroked his head and said, “We will...
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A Prescription for Function: Expanding your Toolbox for Somatic Symptom Disorders
November 1, 2023
Dr. McIntosh Presenters: Catherine Sullivan, MD, and Christina Giudice, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC Dr. Sullivan and Ms. Giudice presented on Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders (SSRD) and best care...
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Creating a Therapeutic Environment for Adolescents with Behavioral Health Needs
November 1, 2023
Dr. Cantu Presenters: Cori Grant, MD, Purvi Patel, MD, and Molly Gleason, OTR/L Rates of mental health issues and suicide in children have been rising for at least a decade, but since the summer...
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Behavioral Emergency Response Teams and Racial Bias in Pediatric Hospitals
November 1, 2023
Dr. Edwards Presenters: Rachel Peterson, MD, and Edward Kim, MD Recently, concern has been growing about hospital patient-to-worker harm events and the increase in patients with mental health...
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High-yield Psychiatric Pearls in Hospitalized Children
November 1, 2023
Dr. Shariati Presenters: Katherine Soe, MD, Patrick Brady, MD, Leslie Farrell, MD, and Cristin McDermott, MD PHM 2023 presenters opened the session by highlighting that nearly one in five...
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Lessons from a Med-Psych Unit
October 2, 2023
In 2019, I accepted a position at the University of Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. I knew this wouldn’t be bread-and-butter hospital medicine, but rather a unique...
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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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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...