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SIG Spotlight: POCUS
August 1, 2022
For a skill that is decidedly single-handed, many hands make lighter work for hospitalists focused on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). Hence the popularity of SHM’s POCUS Special Interest Group...
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Chapter Spotlight: Nashville
August 1, 2022
Nashville Skyline; Shutterstock.com Like the sound Nashville is famous for, the local chapter of SHM doesn’t succeed by resting on its greatest hits. Founded in 2017 and now 233 members...
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Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It’s Time to Step Up
July 12, 2022
I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to become an expert in firearm injury, but here I am. Every day more than 300 people are shot in the United States.1,2 That fact...
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Dr. Chang’s Converge 2022 Message
July 1, 2022
Thank you for perusing and hopefully being intrigued and enlightened by our July 2022 issue of The Hospitalist, which covers highlights of SHM Converge 2022 in Nashville, Tenn. None of us...
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With a Dynamic Past and Present, There’s Little Doubt of a Dynamic Future for HM
July 1, 2022
In the late 1990s, when Robert Wachter, MD, found that his vision of and advocacy for the hospital medicine field was starting to get publicity, his father told him about a tennis game he’d...
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Hospitalists’ Jam Session
July 1, 2022
These members of the band performed in Nashville: standing (L to R): Kevin Maguire, Do, FHM, John Nelson, MD, MHM, Robert Zipper, MD, MMM, SFHM, Thomas McIlraith, MD, CLHM, SFHM, and David Lake, MD;...
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COVID-19 Has Shown the Power of HM
July 1, 2022
Amid the unspeakable tragedies and hardships that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the medical community are examples of stunning acts of innovation, compassion, and old-fashioned effort. Dr....
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High-Value Care in Pediatrics: Things We Do for No Reason
July 1, 2022
Dr. Tantoco Presenter: Mike Tchou, MD, MSc, Children’s Hospital of Colorado/University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo. Dr. Tchou began by defining value as an equation, with...
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Hospitalists Recount the Struggles of Parenting During COVID-19
July 1, 2022
Mary Fredrickson, MD, a hospitalist at HealthPartners and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, already had a hectic life before COVID-19, with four children ages 5 to 21,...
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How Hospitals Analyze and Learn from Adverse Events
July 1, 2022
Presenter: Daniel Steinberg, MD, FACP, SFHM, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York In this session, the speaker walked through the steps institutions practicing...