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 ...

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 ...

The United States is in the midst of a public health crisis. Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdoses. 1 Opioid addiction has a tremendous negative effect on parents and children by ...

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 ...

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

The physician advisor role has been evolving in adult medicine for many years. Hospitalists are well suited for this role given their broad knowledge base regarding health care systems and their ...

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

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 ...

How has the inflation reduction act affected prescription drug costs ...