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Finding Beauty in Our Patients’ Lives
October 4, 2023
Awe as a path to greater resilience for hospitalists With her grey hair pulled back and wearing her Sunday best, Ms. W. gracefully rose from the chair and approached the hospital bed where her...
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Bedside Rounding—Pros, Cons, and Tips for Success
October 2, 2023
Bedside rounding, a practice dating back more than a century, is not uniformly implemented. Many physicians are unsure of its effectiveness in improving patient care and teaching learners, and it...
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Lessons from a Med-Psych Unit
October 2, 2023
In 2019, I accepted a position at the University of Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. I knew this wouldn’t be bread-and-butter hospital medicine, but rather a unique...
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SIG Spotlight: Academic Leaders
October 2, 2023
Every academic hospital medicine leader has two bosses: one on the academic side, through the school of medicine, and one on the hospital side, often reporting to someone in the C-suite, given its...
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Movers and Shakers September 2023
September 1, 2023
Dr. Mgbokikwe Nkemdilim Mgbojikwe, MD, has joined Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, as associate chief medical officer; she will also serve as an associate professor and hospitalist in the...
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Harnessing Our Energies to Work Together
September 1, 2023
As we celebrate women in hospital medicine we recognize the work they do to promote, mentor, encourage, and empathize with other women. We can all relate to their stories and journeys. I still...
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Dual Specialties—the Best of Both Worlds
September 1, 2023
Hospitalists who decide to pursue additional board certifications to broaden their field of practice seldom take the same path. Regardless of whether they chose this road for a clinical interest or...
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Teaching Cases: A Recipe for Success
- Anand D Jagannath, MD, MS;
- Andrew P.J. Olson, MD, FACP, FAAP;
- Heather Hofmann, MD, FACP
September 1, 2023
Clinician educators can nurture learners within the evolving clinical environment A chef is a skilled professional cook.1 In many ways, hospitalist clinician-educators are like chefs, seeking to...
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SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine Report Includes New Data
August 10, 2023
SHM’s 2023 State of Hospital Medicine (SoHM) Report contains the first data on hospital medicine groups since before the COVID-19 pandemic started in early 2020. SHM paused the normal two-year...
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Street Medicine on the Floors: A Promising Inpatient Model
- Elizabeth Desmarais, DO;
- Jacqueline Fitton, DO;
- James Miller, MD;
- Patrick Perri, MD
August 1, 2023
Persons experiencing homelessness (PEH) can be some of the most complex patients on hospitalists’ services. Chronic conditions such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes are...