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Don’t Miss Out on SHM Converge 2025
February 3, 2025
At this time of the year, my dedication to my New Year’s resolution is dwindling, and the weather here in Chicago is leaving a lot to be desired. During times like this, I find looking forward to...
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JHM Thinks Outside the Box with Innovations Corner and Point-Counterpoint
February 3, 2025
Realizing that patients cared for at rural and critical-access hospitals struggle with access to interventional endoscopy procedures at tertiary care centers, a Minnesota hospital began a bold...
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SHM Hill Day 2024
January 1, 2025
Members of SHM met with legislators and staff to discuss important issues affecting hospitalists and their patients during SHM’s annual Hill Day in September On September 26, 2024, SHM’s...
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Hospital Medicine Now and in the Future: Ad Astra Per Aspera
December 2, 2024
Dr. Howell, like many hospitalists, helped operationalize the COVID-19 clinical infrastructure on the wards during the pandemic. Ad Astra Per Aspera is an ancient Latin motto used by numerous...
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SIG Spotlight: Palliative Care
December 2, 2024
For Elizabeth Gundersen, MD, FAAHPM, FHM, chair of SHM’s Palliative Care Special Interest Group, caring for patients at the end of their lives is a labor of love. But, in death just like life,...
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Chapter Spotlight: Long Island
December 2, 2024
For some early career hospitalists, it can take years to realize the value of networking. Some practitioners in their first years on the job can get caught up in the day-to-day work and not...
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Hospitalists as Event/Project Leaders
November 1, 2024
Months of anticipation finally came to a head in April 2024 as we gathered in San Diego for #SHMConverge24. The Journal of Hospital Medicine’s Digital Media Team finally all met in person for the...
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Chapter Spotlight: Nebraska
November 1, 2024
Mohammed Zalabani, MD, FHM, had just stepped away from a directorship role and was looking for less leadership responsibility and more time with “my kids and my family and my house and my...
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SIG Spotlight: Hospital Medicine Innovation and Entrepreneurship
November 1, 2024
Medical schools teach a lot of material in a short time, and residencies and fellowships help round out the training that makes hospitalists good at what they do. But nowhere in that learning curve...
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Should Teaching Hospitalists be Required to Provide Direct Care?
October 1, 2024
It’s been a while since our January #JHMChat, but with a new class of interns, it seems like a good time to go back and review what we discussed! The chat focused on a Journal of Hospital Medicine...