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 gathering conference health news and lives in West Palm Beach.
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Policy Experts Urge Hospitalists to Get Involved, Share Knowledge
SAN DIEGO — Think beyond your four walls, speakers told hospitalists at HM16.
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Health Information Technology Ramps Up Its Presence
SAN DIEGO — To talk to Nancy Allen, MD, a locum tenens physician who works in Portland, Me., is to get a sense of that head-spinning sensation you...
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Administrators Share Strategies for High-Performing Hospitalist Groups at HM16
In November, Barbara Weisenbach took a new job as practice manager for the hospitalist group at Northwest Hospital in Seattle. She’s an...
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HM16 Speakers Focus on Public Health, Leadership, Future of Hospital Medicine
SAN DIEGO — Hospital medicine’s annual extravaganza nestled into the southwestern corner of the country in March, with a record 4,000 hospitalists...
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HM16 Speakers, Attendees Focus on Training, Advancement, Work-Life Balance
SAN DIEGO — If you arrived late, or even right on time, to the session on becoming a better attending, you’d better have been ready to find a...
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Hospital Medicine 2016 Brims with Lively Talks, Record Crowds in San Diego
Yes, it rained some in dry San Diego—for the first time in a month, according to locals. But that was the extent of the disappointment at HM16—SHM...
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LISTEN NOW: Kendall Rogers, MD, SFHM, Discusses Hm16's New Health IT Track
Kendall Rogers, MD, SFHM, chair of SHM’s Health IT Committee, discusses HM16 having a separate track for health IT, to whom the track is geared,...
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LISTEN NOW: Course Director Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, Chats HM16
Course Director Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, talks about the SHM annual meeting's new...
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Six Strategies to Help Hospitalists Improve Communication
As Karen Smith, MD, SFHM, chief of hospital medicine at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., sees it, communication problems...
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Health IT Chief, Hospital Medicine ‘Godfather’ Headline SHM Annual Meeting Keynotes
Health information technology (IT) will take center stage early and often at this year’s annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine....
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HM16 Takes a Look at Health IT, Post-Acute Care
Take a look at the HM16 program, and you get a snapshot of the most pressing topics in hospital medicine.
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Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, Offers Inside Scoop on HM16 Educational Offerings
HM16 course director Melissa Mattison, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, took some time out of her...
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San Diego Hospitalist Weijen Chang, MD, SFHM, Offers Suggestions on Things to Do at HM16
Weijen Chang, MD, SFHM, associate clinical professor at the University of California at San Diego, has a concern: If people attending HM16 don’t...
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Hospital Medicine 2016 Expands, Offers ‘Something for Everyone’
If you can’t find anything that interests you at HM16, check your caffeine level.
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Hospital Medicine 2016 Returns to San Diego
More than 3,000 hospitalists, nurses, administrators, medical residents, and students will ensconce themselves in Spanish Revival architecture,...