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Hope in Tough Times
February 3, 2025
Scanning the labs of the woman I am admitting from the emergency department, I see a calcium of 12. “Oh no,” the thought jumps to the front of my mind, “This might be from a recurrence of her...
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How Can We Cultivate Happiness in Medicine?
- Marjorie Bessel, MD;
- Nikhil Sood, MD
February 3, 2025
Case A 45-year-old hospitalist, a familiar face in the system for the past decade, tragically took his own life. His colleagues and staff admired him, and he always had a pleasant working...
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Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Prescription Drug Costs
- Arunab Mehta, MD, MEd, FACP, FHM;
- Stephanie Parton, PharmD, BCPS
February 3, 2025
Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total...
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How Hospitalists Can Learn from Diagnostic Errors and Successes
- Opeoluwa Olayinka, MD;
- Susrutha Kotwal, MD, MEHP, SFHM;
- Venkat Gundareddy, MD, SFHM
February 3, 2025
Hospitalists are at the forefront of inpatient care and are well-positioned to reduce diagnostic errors while promoting diagnostic excellence. Diagnostic errors, defined as “the failure to (a)...
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Does AI Portend Sudden Transformations for Hospitalists?
February 3, 2025
Hospital medicine pioneer Robert Wachter, MD, MHM, chair of the department of medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), has tackled some of the big, transformative topics in...
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Chapter Spotlight: Arizona
February 3, 2025
The Arizona chapter of SHM faced a challenge in 2021 when its founding hospitalists saw their practice shift from inpatient medicine to primary care. At that point, many of the members of the chapter...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital at Home
February 3, 2025
Everyone knows the concept of hospital at home care. It’s institutional-level medical treatment delivered in the confines of a Cape Cod or a two-bedroom apartment, either in person or through...
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Lost Hope
January 15, 2025
As I enter his room, I am taken aback He’s healthy and strong And his eyes full of spark He’s pleading to me please don’t give me bad news Give me something to hold to, some hope I can...
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Pleading Eyes
January 15, 2025
His yellow eyes, his yellow skin, kept watching me As I enter in His soul was begging to keep going Although inside me, I was knowing He wouldn’t last another week He would be gone within a...
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Coding Corner: Talk the Talk, Bill the Bill: Navigating Advance Care Discussion Billing
- Arunab Mehta, MD, MEd, FHM
January 1, 2025
A 75-year-old woman with a previous medical history of high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, stage 4 chronic kidney disease, and lung cancer was admitted to the hospital with chest pain and...