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Digital Tools: The New Frontline Against Sepsis
September 3, 2024
In the fast-paced world of hospital medicine, digital tools are revolutionizing the battle against sepsis. This life-threatening condition, known for its rapid onset and potentially devastating...
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Diverse Mentorship Options Allow a Tailored Approach
September 3, 2024
Mentorship has been shown to have numerous benefits for mentees such as increasing confidence, mitigating burnout, improving physician retention, and successful career development.1 According to...
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Hospitalist Leaders Reflect on the Importance of Mentorship
September 3, 2024
With hospital medicine a newer specialty, mentorship has an extra special role, say several hospitalist leaders who have spent much of their careers serving as mentors for others. Mentoring helps...
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SHM’s Hospital Medicine DEI Scholarship Winner: Nnamdi Igwe
September 3, 2024
Left to Right: Dr. Kris Rehm, Dr. Greg Johnson, Nnamdi Igwe, and Dr. Eric Howell SHM presented two $25,000 Hospital Medicine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarships in April at Converge....
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SIG Spotlight: Oncology Hospitalists
September 3, 2024
A lot of hospital medicine goes back to the mid-1990s when the term was first coined and the budding specialty’s first bricks were laid. Dr. Hodde Dealing with cancer as an inpatient expert...
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Chapter Spotlight: Sacramento
September 3, 2024
Most chapters for SHM begin with a gaggle of hospitalists meeting up and becoming friends, bound by shared work experience. Things work differently in the Sacramento chapter, founded as a...
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Be an Advocate for Voting
September 3, 2024
Dr. Sheehy Healthcare practitioners have firsthand knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses of the current healthcare environment. “Oftentimes, things that are working well (or not) are...
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Seizing the Moment: Hospitalists’ Roles in Reproductive Care
September 3, 2024
A 25-year-old woman is admitted to your service with acute kidney injury due to lupus nephritis in the setting of chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and hypertension. She mentions having menstrual...
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Finding the Time to Optimize Hospitalist Workflow
August 15, 2024
The average daily census (ADC) is a tool that has been used in healthcare to “effectively manage patient flow, allocate resources, and ensure high-quality care.” It has become a central part of...
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RuPaul’s Drag Race Has Made Me a Better Doctor
August 15, 2024
I audibly gasped as Nymphia Wind kick-flipped during her final lip sync for RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR). Shortly thereafter, she was the first East Asian queen crowned “America’s Next Drag...