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No Addiction Medicine Service? No Problem! Things You Need to Know to Care for Patients with Substance Use Disorders
- Goutham Talari, MD, FACP, SFHM
July 1, 2025
Hospitalists frequently encounter patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), yet many institutions lack dedicated addiction medicine services. As opioid-related hospitalizations and overdose...
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Managing Inpatient Diabetes: Practical Pearls and Complex Scenarios
July 1, 2025
In this high-yield session, Lily Ackermann, MD, a clinical associate professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, addressed the complexities of inpatient diabetes...
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“Ace in the Hole”: How to Better Diuresis Your Acute Heart Failure Patients
July 1, 2025
Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common reasons for admission in patients aged 65 years and older, with more than one million hospitalizations per year costing billions in healthcare...
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Mastering Heart Failure Management: A Practical Guide for Hospitalists
- Gurdeep Singh, DO, FACP, SFHM
July 1, 2025
This SHM Converge 2025 session focused on the adult inpatient management of heart failure (HF), with an emphasis on diuretic strategies and guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for both HF with...
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The Pneumonia Playbook: Updates for Hospitalists
- Gurdeep Singh, DO, FACP, SFHM
July 1, 2025
Several clinical scenarios were reviewed by Maria E. Theodorou, MD, FACP, FHM, an associate professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, highlighting the clinical...
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Updates in Pulmonary Hypertension
- Justin Miller, MD, FACP, SFHM
July 1, 2025
Rajany V. Dy, MD, FCCP, the director of pulmonary vascular diseases at Los Angeles General Medical Center in Los Angeles, delivered a practical and informative session on pulmonary hypertension,...
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Supporting Your Workforce: Building an Effective APP Leadership Team
July 1, 2025
Quoting the leadership guru Simon Sinek, April Burke, vice president of advanced practice providers at Sound Physicians, set the tone of her SHM Converge session in Las Vegas: “Leadership without...
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The Great Debate 2025—Controversies in Perioperative Medicine
- Chris Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM
July 1, 2025
Under the bright, early‑morning glow of a Vegas ballroom—think less blackjack table, more brightly lit lecture hall—two perioperative medicine rivals took the stage for SHM’s “Great...
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Updates in Sepsis
- Chris Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM
July 1, 2025
The annual sepsis update, delivered by Meshell Johnson, MD, ATSF, professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, distilled a year’s worth of high-impact evidence into...
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Finding My Path in Inpatient Medicine: A Family Medicine Resident’s Reflection
June 25, 2025
My name is Mehran, and I’m currently transitioning into my second year as a family medicine resident at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I chose this specialty with a deep passion for...