My goal as physician editor is to work with SHM members to continue to produce a great source of hospitalist information. The Hospitalist readers include internists, family practitioners, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They also comprise administrators, businesspeople, and legislators. I perceive important topics to involve medical management, education, communication, economics, government regulation, ethics, and palliative care, as well as the activities of our society, chapters, and members.
With the team from John Wiley & Sons and the support of SHM administration and the members, I hope to accomplish this task. My patient all those years ago survived and left the hospital. I only can hope that The Hospitalist will thrive as well. TH
Jamie Newman, MD, FACP, is senior associate consultant, Hospital Internal Medicine, associate professor of internal medicine and medical history, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn.