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 ...

Most working hospitalists will see cancer patients regularly on their hospital rounds since it’s the main underlying condition for many hospital admissions—whether for the disease itself, side effects ...

Hospitalist nurse practitioner and physician assistant providers have been a growing and evolving part of the inpatient medical workforce, seemingly since the inception of hospital medicine.

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

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 ...

In residency, we had derisive nicknames for the hospitals in the surrounding rural areas that would frequently send us patients. After we were notified of the transfer, we stayed on edge until the ...

Dr. Kneeland’s company was created to provide medical care at home as an alternative to hospitalization, along with other alternate-site medical services, for contracting hospitals, health systems, ...

Medicine is not immune to these injustices. Persistent underrepresentation of women and minorities remains in medical school faculty and the broader physician workforce, and the same inequities exist ...

Hospitalists are uniquely positioned to drive quality-improvement (QI) initiatives across the health care continuum. Our daily interactions span diverse health care teams and specialties. Our care ...