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Chapter spotlight: Rhode Island
April 1, 2022
For years, there’d been talk of starting a Rhode Island chapter of SHM. Sure, hospitalists in the smallest state in the country could have hopped state lines to join a chapter in Boston or...
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Top 10 leadership tips from Dr. Eric Howell
March 1, 2022
Dr. Howell While preparing for National Hospitalist Day, I began reflecting on how fortunate I am to be a hospitalist and on the aspects of leadership that have allowed me to successfully...
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It’s time for a change
March 1, 2022
Much has been written about the challenges frontline health care workers have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Long hours, excessive death, and fear for one’s own safety and the welfare of...
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Chapter Spotlight: Atlanta
February 3, 2022
Hospitalist John Vazquez, MD, calls it cross-pollination. Dr. Vazquez As the immediate past president of the SHM chapter in Atlanta, he’s referring to the value of networking and the role...
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SHM Converge promises a lively return to live
February 3, 2022
In 1998, about 200 hospitalists and hospital medicine-related professionals came together in San Diego at the first annual conference of the National Association of Inpatient Physicians (NAIP). The...
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Hospitalists demonstrate resiliency in the face of challenge
February 3, 2022
Dr. Verplanke As he reflected upon his days as a hospitalist and unit medical director within the division of hospital medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York, since the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Addressing the nursing shortage
January 7, 2022
Dr. Hannapel With the onset of COVID-19, the existing nurse shortage only worsened at many hospitals throughout the country. “COVID patients require an extra level of care due to the virus’s...
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SHM celebrates 25th anniversary as the home for hospital medicine
January 7, 2022
A little more than a quarter-century ago the emergence of the new medical specialty of hospital medicine was signaled in a New England Journal of Medicine article that defined it by the location for...
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Helping others find their joy
- Weijen W. Chang, MD, FAAP, SFHM
January 7, 2022
Dr. Weijen Chang My last editor’s column focused on crisis leadership, specifically the example of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s doomed attempt to cross the Antarctic, which nonetheless proved to...
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Is mindfulness key to helping physicians with mental health?
December 8, 2021
“When we go into our state of deep rest in the meditation practice, which is two to five times more restful than sleep, it heals those stress scars.”