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MRSA Nasal PCR’s Role in Empiric Antibiotic Selection
- Bahnsen Miller, MD;
- Charles Derek Leiner, MD;
- Jonathan Van Name;
- Patrick Fadden, MD
August 1, 2023
Case A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper...
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How Having a Medical Writer on Staff Can Help Your Team
- Jasmah Hanna, MS;
- Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH
August 1, 2023
Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall: Hospitalists face numerous demands, and those in academic medicine are also expected to write and publish their work in peer-reviewed journals, present at conferences,...
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SIG Spotlight: Med-Peds
August 1, 2023
Hospitalists trained in both pediatric and adult medicine don’t always feel grounded as a comrade among either cadre of caregivers. Consider SHM’s Med-Peds Special Interest Group (SIG) that sense...
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Chapter Spotlight: Utah
August 1, 2023
For many SHM chapters nationwide, leadership through the COVID-19 pandemic paved the way for chapter growth and progress post-pandemic. But what if a chapter used 2020 not as a bridge to success,...
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A Vantage Point Amidst Chaos
July 31, 2023
Photos are taken from the campus of EvergreenHealth in Kirkland, Wash. The hospital is a vantage point, A window into human existence, Where we see proof...
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Dr. Readlynn Enjoys the Team-based Care of HM and Working with Learners
July 21, 2023
Q & A with Jennifer K. Readlynn, MD, FHM, adult hospitalist and clinician educator, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y. Whether it’s working with her...
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Movers and Shakers, July 2023
July 6, 2023
Dr. Chudgar Saumil Chudgar, MD, MS, SFHM, a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital, Durham, N.C., and associate professor of medicine and assistant dean for clinical education at Duke University...
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Improving Communications Between ED and Hospitalist Physicians, Viewpoints from Both Perspectives
- Amanda Green, MD, FACP, FHM
July 5, 2023
Dr. Michael and Dr. Andrew Pfeffer are brothers who each presented a side of the emergency department(ED)/hospitalist points of conflict. They set the scope of the talk with data from 2020 that there...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2022
- Andrea Lauffer, MD;
- Anna Kushnir, MD
July 5, 2023
In 2022, a New York Times headline declared, “Saving kids is bad business in America.”1 Pediatric hospitalists were faced with an unprecedented winter surge due to the “tripledemic” of...
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Mid-career “Phronesis”
- James Fink, MD;
- Stephanie Halvorson, MD
July 5, 2023
The 2023 SHM Converge Conference in Austin, Texas was the backdrop for a chance encounter between two old friends. We and our spouses met during residency 20 years ago, became fast friends, and then...