A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension and stage 4 chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital for acute pulmonary embolism and started on a heparin drip. It is day two of his ...

A Q&A with Mehraneh Khalighi, MD, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care Systems, and the University of Washington, division of general internal medicine, Seattle Try different aspects of hospital ...

The Hospitalist aims to provide articles on key issues and trends in hospital medicine, continually assessing how to deliver engaging, relevant, and useful content. Other articles fall into these ...

Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another ...

How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or ...

POCUS is a new column on point-of-care ultrasound. This column aims to explore evolving clinical applications, educational advancements, and the clinical impacts of POCUS through the insights of ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine inducted four new Masters in Hospital Medicine (MHM) at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas. This honor was introduced by SHM in 2010 to acknowledge hospitalists who have ...

Clinical question: Should renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RASI) be continued or discontinued before major noncardiac surgery? Background: Continuation of RASI perioperatively can predispose to ...

Being the newest anything can be both a blessing and a curse. For SHM’s Research Special Interest Group, which just formed in October 2024, the positives of being so new are that the group is ...

Look, anything good enough for the iconic character of Crash Davis in the movie Bull Durham is good enough for hospital medicine. At least, so says the attendance of the Durham Bulls social event that ...

Clinical question: Is the interrupted use of a beta-blocker non-inferior to its continued use in patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI)? Background: Patients with MI are often started ...

May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. In honor of this month, The Hospitalist interviewed several AAPI hospitalists to learn more about how their upbringing influenced them and ...