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HM16 AUDIO: Jordan Romano Discusses Getting Published, Hospitalist Burnout
April 11, 2016
Jordan Romano, DO, a hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital, talks about lessons gleaned at HM16 on the importance of taking small steps toward your goals of getting published and how burnout can be relative.
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Administrators Share Strategies for High-Performing Hospitalist Groups at HM16
April 7, 2016
In November, Barbara Weisenbach took a new job as practice manager for the hospitalist group at Northwest Hospital in Seattle. She’s an experienced administrator but as for hospital medicine, not so much.
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HM16 Q&A: What Problem Do You Hope Health IT Solves?
April 6, 2016
With the rolling out of the Health IT track on the second full day of HM16, The Hospitalist asked: What problem do you hope health IT solves or helps you solve over the next five years?
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Farhanaz Chow
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HM16 Q&A: How Can Hospitalists Avoid Burnout?
April 5, 2016
Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, in his annual address touched on some of the challenges for hospital medicine at the 20-year mark.
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HM16 Speakers Focus on Public Health, Leadership, Future of Hospital Medicine
April 2, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Hospital medicine’s annual extravaganza nestled into the southwestern corner of the country in March, with a record 4,000 hospitalists and others expanding their knowledge of clinical care, management, leadership, technology, and quality improvement.
They listened, they laughed, they
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Did You Commit to ‘Fight the Resistance’ at HM16?
March 29, 2016
Thanks to everyone who showed their commitment to fighting antibiotic resistance at HM16 in San Diego by signing our “Fight the Resistance” posters at the SHM booth.
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HM16 Speakers, Attendees Focus on Training, Advancement, Work-Life Balance
March 26, 2016
SAN DIEGO — If you arrived late, or even right on time, to the session on becoming a better attending, you’d better have been ready to find a clear spot on the floor or have had the energy to stand for an hour.
Read more about the speakers at HM16.
But the dynamic talk, you could even say perf
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HM16 Session Analysis: Medical, Behavioral Management of Eating Disorders
- David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM
March 11, 2016
Presenter: Kyung E. Rhee, MD, MSc, MA
Summary: Eating disorders (ED) are common and have significant morbidity and mortality. EDs are the third most common psychiatric disorder of adolescents with a prevalence of 0.5-2% for anorexia and 0.9-3% for bulimia; 90% of patients are female.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Nonpharmacological Treatment Approach Better for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
- David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM
March 10, 2016
Presenter: Matthew Grossman, MD, FAAP
Summary: Treating Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) traditionally has followed a standardized approach using the Finnegan Scoring System in which if there were three consecutive scores > 8 or two scores > 12, medications would be started.
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HM16 Session Analysis: Stay Calm, Safe During Inpatient Behavioral Emergencies
- David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM
March 10, 2016
Presenters: David Pressel, MD, PhD, FAAP, FHM, Emily Fingado, MD, FAAP, and Jessica Tomaszewski, MD, FAAP
Summary: Patients may engage in violent behaviors that pose a danger to themselves or others.