Article
Human Behavior: Implications for Hospital Medicine
July 1, 2022
Presenter: Brad Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM, University of California, San Francisco Many aspects of human behavior are influenced by judgments and assessments that occur within fractions of a second....
Article
Remedies for the Unavoidable Implicit Bias
July 1, 2022
Dr. Capers The billboard loomed above the road in Savannah, Ga., with three huge faces in medical masks peering out. “All Cardiothoracic Surgeons Look Like This,” it read. All the faces...
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Pediatric Update: Top 10 Articles of 2021
July 1, 2022
Presenters and Summary authors: Matthew Shapiro, MD, MS, FAAP, Shuvani Sanyal, MD Dr. Sanyal Dr. Shapiro As pediatric hospitalists, our organ is the hospital. We care for a wide variety of...
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SHM News
June 1, 2022
Andrea Martinez Receives SHM’s Inaugural DEI Scholarship Andrea Martinez, a third-year medical student at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, received SHM’s inaugural Hospital...
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Article
LGBTQIA+ Patient Care
June 1, 2022
Where are we and where are we going? The LGBTQIA+ community has doubled since it was first measured in 2012, according to a 2022 Gallup poll—it now includes 7.1% of Americans.1 As the community...
Self-identified black patients experience higher rates of occult hypoxemia
May 2, 2022
Dr. Long Clinical question: Are there disparities in hypoxemia detection by pulse oximetry across self-identified racial groups and, if so, is there an association with clinical...
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Opinion
A case-based framework for de-escalating conflict
December 14, 2021
De-escalation of a conflict is a critical and evolving skill and practice.
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Opinion
What does it mean to be a trustworthy male ally?
November 10, 2021
“I began to understand that graceful self-promotion is not optional for many women in medicine, it is a necessary skill.”
News
Racial bias in pulse oximetry results confirmed
November 4, 2021
Black patients with respiratory failure had a statistically significantly higher risk of occult hypoxemia, compared with White patients.
News
Comorbidities larger factor than race in COVID ICU deaths?
October 21, 2021
Racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates may be related more to comorbidities than to demographics, suggest authors of a new study.
