The Society of Hospital Medicine and Wiley are happy to announce that The Hospitalist has received an APEX Award of ...

A 68-year-old diabetic nonverbal female presents to the ED because of “seizure” 1 hour ago. On exam, her blood glucose is 200. She is unable to speak and has dysphagia because of a stroke she ...

Dr. Bonsall is an associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the chief of Emory Medicine Services at Grady Memorial Hospital, both in Atlanta. She completed her ...

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 ...

A 67-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was admitted to inpatient general medicine from his nursing home for pneumonia. He reported a 10-day history of an upper respiratory ...

In partnership with our members and SHM’s Board of Directors, we are exploring ways SHM can support the hospital medicine community as we collectively monitor the key factors outlined above and how ...

Some hospitalists have found greener pastures working in locum tenens capacities. The freedom, flexibility, enticing pay, and the ability to work in a variety of hospital environments and medicine ...

Our first and foremost duty in healthcare is to provide our patients with compassionate and equitable care. Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and ...

Prescription drug costs in the U.S. are among the highest in the world, surpassing those in other high-income nations by more than two and a half times. In 2023, the U.S. healthcare system’s total ...

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

Nashville welcomed SHM Converge 2026, and with it one of the conference’s most anticipated annual traditions: the Updates in Hospital Medicine session. Kencee Graves, MD, FHM, clinical professor of ...

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 ...