Early in his career, Eric Howell, MD, MHM—now the chief executive officer of the Society of Hospital Medicine—was a ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine and Wiley are happy to announce that The Hospitalist has received an APEX Award of Excellence this year for content published in 2024. The October 2024 issue was ...

Tom Collins is a freelance writer in South Florida who has written about medical topics from nasty infections to ethical dilemmas, runaway tumors to tornado-chasing doctors. He travels the globe ...

S HM Converge 2025 was another successful meeting of the minds and gave me the opportunity to learn and network. This year ...

Hospitalists who decide to pursue additional board certifications to broaden their field of practice seldom take the same path. Regardless of whether they chose this road for a clinical interest or to ...

Case Mr. Smith is a 48-year-old man with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compensated cirrhosis who presented to the emergency department with alcohol withdrawal. He had been consuming one pint of vodka ...

What is oral step-down therapy’s relative clinical effectiveness, compared with prolonged IV antibiotics for infective endocarditis (IE)?

How do other institutions reduce avoidable readmissions?Venkat Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, SFHM, associate director in the division of hospital medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in ...

Among their many responsibilities, hospitalists typically rank patient care as their number one priority and the education of medical students, residents, and fellows as a critical number two. As ...

SHM’s Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee (PMRC) members debut a new column in The Hospitalist —“Demystifying Performance Measures.” This series intends to provide members with a framework ...

QUIZ A 65-year-old man is admitted for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). On hospital day two, respiratory symptoms are improving while being treated with ceftriaxone and azithromycin. As you are ...

Transparency and communication are key to handling medical board complaints ...