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    Hospitalists Talk about Rebuilding Trust in Health Care

    May 2, 2022

    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

    May 2, 2022

    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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    Health care systems can do more to support environmental health services employees

    May 2, 2022

    Clinical question: What has been the experience of environmental services (EVS) employees working during the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Gordon Background: EVS employees play an essential role in...

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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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    Chapter spotlight: Rhode Island

    April 1, 2022

    For years, there’d been talk of starting a Rhode Island chapter of SHM. Sure, hospitalists in the smallest state in the country could have hopped state lines to join a chapter in Boston or...