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Going Home
- Jordan Messler, MD, FACP, SFHM
July 31, 2025
She promised herself that this would be the last time, no matter what. She is tired and wants to go home. This is the visit that tipped the scale. Literally. That damn scale was the source of this...
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Hospital Addiction Consultative Service Increases MOUD Initiation and Linkage to Follow-up After Discharge
- John M Cunningham, MD, FHM
July 31, 2025
Clinical question: Does an addiction-focused consult service increase medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) initiation during inpatient hospitalization and connect patients to follow-up care...
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Countertransference
July 31, 2025
He raises his head, fingers curled gently around the tiny ankle of the child on the bed – “I lost my grandson last year,” he says, quiet undertone to rustle of sheets from the next room...
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Beyond the Hospital’s Four Walls
July 31, 2025
When, in their classic 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, Robert Wachter, MD, and Lee Goldman, MD, announced the emergence of the hospitalist concept, they defined it in terms of doctors...
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An In-Depth Look at Locum Tenens Work
July 31, 2025
Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine...
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Who Do You Trust?
- Prerak Juthani, MD, MBA;
- Rebecca Handler, MSc
July 30, 2025
In the Age of “Make America Healthy Again,” Universities Must Lead the Charge Against Health Misinformation It was a Tuesday morning on the Caltrain. A young woman sat across from me with her...
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SHM’s Leadership Academy Turns 20: Leaders Reflect on Its Impact and Evolution
July 16, 2025
Dr. Howell Early in his career, Eric Howell, MD, MHM—now the chief executive officer of the Society of Hospital Medicine—was a “prototypical hospitalist,” as he put it. He was young, and...
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Updates in Hospital Medicine 2025
- Chris Migliore, MD, MS, FACP, FHM;
- Lauren Spaeth, DO
July 2, 2025
Dustin T. Smith, MD, SFHM, academic hospitalist and assistant chief of medicine for education in the medical specialty care service line at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and associate...
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Digital Health Technologies in Perioperative Medicine
July 2, 2025
Digital health technologies, particularly with the advancement of artificial intelligence systems, are a growing area of interest in modern medicine. While research remains in relatively early...
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Peering Into a Crystal Ball: Leveraging EMR Tools to Predict Clinical Deterioration and How to Intervene
- Ethan Molitch-Hou, MD, MPH, SFHM
July 2, 2025
As hospitalists at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas, we may have wished for a crystal ball to win big at the tables. However, our professional aspirations focus on predicting which patients may...