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In Caring for Afghan Refugees, Hospitalists Discover New Capabilities
December 1, 2022
LAKE BUENA VISTA—When leaders in the pediatric hospitalist service at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis were asked to lead the medical care for a mass influx of Afghan refugees after the...
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Hospital Closures Pose Challenges to Care
November 1, 2022
Empty beds in a hospital room. When 10-bed Nye Regional Medical Center, in west-central Nevada, closed abruptly in 2015, it meant that the residents of the former gold-mining town of Tonopah...
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Better Ways to Handle LGBTQIA+ Matters
November 1, 2022
Let’s say—said Angela Kade Goepferd, MD (they/she), medical director of the Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program at Children’s Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis—that a 12-year-old...
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Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Our Pandemic Journey to Everyday Advocacy
November 1, 2022
Dr. Kumar More than 1,000 pediatric hospitalists gathered for four educational days (July 28-31, 2022) at the Disney Yacht Club Convention Center for our first in-person Pediatric Hospital...
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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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7 Types of Jargon Overuse
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Say What? Diagnosing and Treating the 7 types of Jargon Overuse Presenters: Mike Pitt, MD, and Jordan Marmet, MD, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis,...
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STI Guideline Updates for Pediatric Hospitalists
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: 2021 Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Guideline Updates: What the Pediatric Hospitalist Needs to Know Presenters: Jason Zucker, MD, Columbia University, New York, and Candice...
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Using SMART Regimens in PHM
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Get SMART: Implementation of updated asthma guidelines for pediatric hospitalists Presenters: Alexander Hogan, MD, MS, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, Conn., Kathryn...
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Refuting Long-held Pediatric Clinical Tenets
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: Um, Dr. Dancel, We Don’t Do That Anymore Presenters: Jennifer Fuchs, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill, N.C., Steve Weinberg, MD, UNC Children’s Hospital, Chapel Hill,...
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Pediatric Pain Evaluation, Physiology, and Treatment
September 23, 2022
PHM Session: The Agony and the Ecstasy: Pain Assessment and Management in the Clinical Setting Presenter: David Casavant, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Mass. Dr. David Casavant...