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Health care systems can do more to support environmental health services employees
May 2, 2022
Clinical question: What has been the experience of environmental services (EVS) employees working during the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Gordon Background: EVS employees play an essential role in...
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A structured end-of-life communication strategy reduces prolonged grief in families of dying ICU patients
May 2, 2022
Clinical question: Does a proactive, three-step, support strategy decrease prolonged grief in relatives of patients who die in the intensive care unit (ICU)? Dr. Wood Background: Prolonged...
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Hospital Supply Chains
May 2, 2022
The supply chain. Lean manufacturing. Just-in-time economy. Unless you hold a business degree or just love reading the Wall Street Journal, chances are these terms weren’t part of your vocabulary...
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SHM’s Leadership Academy
April 1, 2022
Invest in yourself and the leader you want to be SHM’s Leadership Academy was created to address an education gap common among physicians—leadership skills. These skills are not uniformly taught...
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Back to basics
- Jerome C. Siy, MD, MHA, SFHM
April 1, 2022
Dr. Siy Where does one begin as we charge into a third year of a pandemic? Hospitalists have leaped hurdle after hurdle to care for COVID-19 patients and those we cared for in congregate living...
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Workforce Issues
April 1, 2022
Silver linings emerge for hospitalists For Elisabeth Souther, MD, chief of hospital medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a rural, academic hospital with almost 400 beds in Lebanon, N.H.,...
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Volunteers—making SHM an educational, scientific, and advocacy powerhouse for 25 years
April 1, 2022
For Ramesh Adhikari, MD, MS, FHM, a hospitalist with Franciscan Alliance in Lafayette, Ind., volunteering for SHM seemed like the right thing to do. “My motivation was to advance the field of...
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Drinking from the fire hose of emerging medical literature
- Alan Hall, MD;
- Eileen Barrett, MD, SFHM;
- Maria Maldonado MD;
- Mary Manley MD
April 1, 2022
We’ve all said to ourselves hundreds of times, “I need to stay more up to date on the medical literature.” For hospitalists with ever-increasing patient care and administrative...
Movers and Shakers
March 18, 2022
Farzana Hoque, MD, MRCP, FACP was recently recognized with the Caring Physician, Attending Physician of the Quarter, and the Excellence in Professionalism awards by SSM Health Saint Louis...
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Learn to surf
March 3, 2022
Recently, three hospitalists turned what could have been a webinar focused on venting into something positive and inspirational. Sharmila Dissanaike, MD, FACS, FCCM, a hospitalist and a trauma,...