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Sixth Annual Southern Regional Meeting Recap
January 1, 2005
Distinguished by the high quality that has become the trademark of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s meetings, the Sixth Annual Southern Regional Meeting began with a Practice Management pre-course directed by Joseph Miller.
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Hospital Medicine: Growing Toward Specialty Status
January 1, 2005
When the Society of Hospital Medicine was very young and headquartered in the home computers of myself and Win Whitcomb (and known then as the National Association of Inpatient Physicians), I spent a lot of time thinking about the future of our field.
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Be Careful What You Ask For
January 1, 2005
I pose here a list of questions to consider before embarking on the creation of a new specialty in hospital medicine 1) What distinguishes the body of knowledge of hospital medicine from internal medicine (or pediatrics, for our colleagues in that field)? While there is a body of literature supporti
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An Ongoing Analysis of the 2003-04 SHM Productivity and Compensation Survey
January 1, 2005
Part IV: Productivity of Hospitalists-Inputs
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Thanks for the Memories
January 1, 2005
This issue of The Hospitalist marks the beginning of my sixth year as the chief executive officer at SHM.
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The Campaign to Save 100,000 Lives
January 1, 2005
I am on a plane on my way back to Minnesota after being professionally rejuvenated by the content of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s 16th Annual Forum, in Orlando, FL. The theme of the meeting called on all hospitals, and hence I believe all hospitalists, to save lives. Dr.
