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PCP Shortage Affects Hospitalists; What are the Options?
August 1, 2023
With worsening doctor shortages expected in many areas of medicine, including hospital medicine, the expected shortfall in primary care doctors is particularly sobering. A 2021 report from the...
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Environmental Service Workers’ Impact on Hospitalists
August 1, 2023
Anyone who works in a hospital knows how important environmental services (EVS) professionals are to providing a safe, functional, supportive environment for patients and staff. Like many aspects of...
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Unit Medical Directors—Liaisons Between Physicians and Nurses
August 1, 2023
Dr. McFadden A variety of health care professionals contribute to caring for patients on hospital units. “Maintaining communication and optimizing processes among these multidisciplinary...
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Dr. Readlynn Enjoys the Team-based Care of HM and Working with Learners
July 21, 2023
Q & A with Jennifer K. Readlynn, MD, FHM, adult hospitalist and clinician educator, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, N.Y. Whether it’s working with her...
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Improving Communications Between ED and Hospitalist Physicians, Viewpoints from Both Perspectives
- Amanda Green, MD, FACP, FHM
July 5, 2023
Dr. Michael and Dr. Andrew Pfeffer are brothers who each presented a side of the emergency department(ED)/hospitalist points of conflict. They set the scope of the talk with data from 2020 that there...
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Ikigai: Finding Joy and Purpose in Medicine
July 5, 2023
Ikigai is a Japanese concept meaning “a reason for being.” It exists at the intersection of passion, mission, profession, and vocation. It’s existed for centuries in Japanese culture and was...
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Retaining Physicians is Crucial and Can be Hard—But It’s Possible
July 5, 2023
Employee retention sign and figurines on the memo sticks. As he stood before the audience talking about the high rate at which physicians are leaving health care, and the challenges to retaining...
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Dr. Craven Finds Purpose in Helping Patients
June 22, 2023
Q & A with Robert A. Craven, MD, FACP, CHCQM-PHYADV, SFHM, vice president of case management, physician advisor, and hospitalist at McLeod Health, Florence, S.C. The hospitalist movement was...
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SHM’s CEO, Dr. Eric Howell, Outlines SHM’s Goals
May 1, 2023
Dr. Howell The cover article of the April issue of The Hospitalist was a message from the SHM president, Dr. Kris Rehm. In her article, she outlined the recently completed vision and mission...
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Important Lessons from Hospitalists Who Love Their Jobs
May 1, 2023
Job stress, moral injury, burnout, and the great resignation—these are very real concerns for the field of hospital medicine, exacerbated by but not limited to the unprecedented challenges of the...