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Hospitalists Talk about Rebuilding Trust in Health Care
- Ankit Mehta MD FACP SFHM;
- Benji K. Mathews, MD, FACP, SFHM
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Dr. Mehta Trust is fundamental to the practice of medicine. As the foundation of a therapeutic relationship, it’s essential for effective care delivery. Trust is a fragile bond, an agreement...
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SHM Advocates for Hospitalists and Their Patients
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Advocacy, simply put, is the act of pleading or arguing in favor of something. It’s raising the concerns and voices of a group to efficiently influence decisions and affect change within...
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Hospitalists stretch beyond their hospitals’ four walls
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Praveen K. Vemula, MD, MPH, CPE, FACP, for the past decade a hospitalist and physician leader, currently with the 11-hospital WellStar Health System based in Atlanta, brought a master’s degree and...
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SHM celebrates 25th anniversary as the home for hospital medicine
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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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The hidden pandemic
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Dr. Sekaran In the eyes of Anand Sekaran, MD, division head of hospital medicine, and medical director of inpatient services at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., it’s...
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AMA, hospital group sue federal government over surprise billing law
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The rule’s approach to surprise billing would “all but ensure that hospitals, physicians, and other providers will routinely be undercompensated by commercial insurers,” the groups said.
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Short-acting opioids needed for withdrawal in U.S. hospitals, say experts
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CDC: Thirty percent of hospital workers in U.S. still unvaccinated
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Health care personnel “are not fully immune from vaccine misinformation.”
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Feds launch COVID-19 worker vaccine mandates
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