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Fellows and Awards of Excellence
March 31, 2017
SHM will honor new Masters, Senior Fellows, and Fellows of Hospital Medicine at HM17, as well as bestow its annual Awards of Excellence.
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Networking: A skill worth learning
March 31, 2017
According to networking expert Ivan Misner, the best way to become an effective networker is to go to events with the idea of being willing to help people.
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Tips for significant others
March 31, 2017
While thousands of hospitalists and other HM17 attendees swarm the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino for a four-day crash course on all things hospital medicine, thousands more family members tag along.
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HM17: Plenaries – Conway and DeSalvo
March 22, 2017
The keynote speakers at HM17 are both optimistic about the future of the U.S. health care system, despite concerns about the rollback of the Affordable Care Act and what that could mean for access to care.
News
Seeing the Future of Hospital Medicine
December 15, 2016
Hospitalists touch the lives of patients and shape health systems’ practices and health policy on a national and international scale according to an editorial titled “The Next 20 Years of Hospital Medicine: Continuing to Foster the Mind, Heart, and Soul of Our Field.”1 “This editorial was my refl
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Tips for Working with Difficult Doctors
December 9, 2016
Intimidation, verbal outbursts, refusing to perform tasks—what to do when a nightmare doc is on your team
News
Strategies for Preventing Patient Falls
December 8, 2016
Between 700,000 and 1 million people fall each year in U.S. hospitals, and about a third of those result in injuries that add an additional 6.3 days to hospital stays, according to a report from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. Some 11,000 falls are fatal.
News
Helping Patients Quit Smoking
December 8, 2016
Inpatient hospitalization can be a key time for patients to quit smoking, according to an abstract called “No More Butts: An Automated System for Inpatient Smoking Cessation Team Consults.”1 “Tobacco smoking continues to be one of the most important public health threats that we face,” says lead
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Hospitalists See Benefit from Working with ‘Surgicalists’
December 7, 2016
The collaboration is widely supported by hospitalists because it brings several advantages, mainly a greater availability of the surgeon for consult.
Opinion
Keeping up with New Payment Models
December 7, 2016
For hospitalists, the arrival of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS, originally Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, or PQRI) marks the swerve in reimbursement complexity
