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    A structured end-of-life communication strategy reduces prolonged grief in families of dying ICU patients

    May 2, 2022

    Clinical question: Does a proactive, three-step, support strategy decrease prolonged grief in relatives of patients who die in the intensive care unit (ICU)?  Dr. Wood Background: Prolonged...

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    Hospital Supply Chains

    May 2, 2022

    The supply chain. Lean manufacturing. Just-in-time economy. Unless you hold a business degree or just love reading the Wall Street Journal, chances are these terms weren’t part of your vocabulary...

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    SHM’s Leadership Academy

    April 1, 2022

    Invest in yourself and the leader you want to be SHM’s Leadership Academy was created to address an education gap common among physicians—leadership skills. These skills are not uniformly taught...

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    Back to basics

    April 1, 2022

    Dr. Siy Where does one begin as we charge into a third year of a pandemic? Hospitalists have leaped hurdle after hurdle to care for COVID-19 patients and those we cared for in congregate living...

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    Workforce Issues

    April 1, 2022

    Silver linings emerge for hospitalists For Elisabeth Souther, MD, chief of hospital medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a rural, academic hospital with almost 400 beds in Lebanon, N.H.,...

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    Volunteers—making SHM an educational, scientific, and advocacy powerhouse for 25 years

    April 1, 2022

    For Ramesh Adhikari, MD, MS, FHM, a hospitalist with Franciscan Alliance in Lafayette, Ind., volunteering for SHM seemed like the right thing to do. “My motivation was to advance the field of...

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    Drinking from the fire hose of emerging medical literature

    April 1, 2022

    We’ve all said to ourselves hundreds of times, “I need to stay more up to date on the medical literature.” For hospitalists with ever-increasing patient care and administrative...

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    Movers and Shakers

    March 1, 2022

    Dr. Choi Chang B. Choi, MD, FHM has been named to the board of directors at CalvertHealth, Prince Frederick, Md. Dr. Choi leads the adult-hospitalist team at CalvertHealth Medical Center. Since...

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    Things to do in Nashville

    March 1, 2022

    Sights, sounds, food, and fun! You might know Nashville as the birthplace of country music and home to SHM’s 2022 annual conference, Converge—but there’s a lot more to see and do in...

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    Must-attend Converge sessions

    March 1, 2022

    SHM editorial board members share their picks Each year, hospitalists, clinicians, and frontline workers come together for SHM’s annual conference—Converge. They come for education, engagement,...