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The National Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge
- Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH;
- Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH
June 2, 2025
It is highly unlikely that any hospitalist, academic or otherwise, has ever complained that they have too much time for writing or that writing is too easy. Even professional writers often struggle...
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Don’t Throw Away Your Shot: Negotiations
- Alyssa M. Stephany, MD, MS, FAAP, PCC (ICF), SFHM;
- Carrie Herzke, MD, MBA, SFHM;
- Joanna Bonsall, MD, PhD, FACP, SFH
June 2, 2025
Many of us did not go into medicine to negotiate, and so feel uncomfortable with negotiations. However, we negotiate more often in our day-to-day lives than we realize (those with children definitely...
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The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching Residents
June 2, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic, advances in technology, and new views about work-life balance have all impacted how medical residents learn in recent years. Dr. Barna “Although the evolution of...
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From Mistakes to Growth: How to Manage Medical Errors
- Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, SFHM;
- Melissa Plesac, MD;
- Paula Skarda, MD;
- Pooja Parekh, MD
June 2, 2025
Many entering the medical profession are perfectionists, unaccustomed to making serious mistakes.1 Medical errors, however, are inevitable and multifactorial.2 We fear errors due to the cost to our...
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Non-Medical Consequences: The 6th Element of Informed Consent
- Lisa Simmon, MD, MBA, CHCQM, SFHM
May 1, 2025
Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another...
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JHM’s Progress Notes
May 1, 2025
Hospitalists would tend to agree that it’s great that medical journals are published every month to provide clinicians and healthcare practitioners with new research findings and perspectives that...
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The Transformative Role of POCUS in Hospital Medicine
- Elian D. Abou Asala, MD, MBA;
- Tanveer Singh, MD, FACP, FRCP (Edin), FHM
May 1, 2025
POCUS is a new column on point-of-care ultrasound. This column aims to explore evolving clinical applications, educational advancements, and the clinical impacts of POCUS through the insights of...
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The Committee That Could: A Model for Rapid Service Structure Change
- Samantha Murray-Bainer, MD;
- Sarah Ahrens, MD
May 1, 2025
How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or...
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Supply Chain Stewardship
May 1, 2025
Healthcare supply chain disruptions have emerged as a major challenge nationwide, fundamentally reshaping clinical practice and patient-care delivery within hospitals. As clinicians, we increasingly...
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Chapter Spotlight: NC Triangle
May 1, 2025
Look, anything good enough for the iconic character of Crash Davis in the movie Bull Durham is good enough for hospital medicine. At least, so says the attendance of the Durham Bulls social event...