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 ...

The annual sepsis update distilled a year’s worth of high-impact evidence into practice-ready guidance for busy hospitalists. Here are highlights of the pivotal trials, clinical pearls, and future ...

The session emphasized different strategies to initiate buprenorphine, naltrexone, acamprosate, gabapentin, and phenobarbital therapy in patients with SUDs.

S HM Converge 2025 was another successful meeting of the minds and gave me the opportunity to learn and network. This year ...

Dr. Dustin T. Smith and Dr. Joanna M. Bonsall reviewed nine key updates in hospital medicine at SHM Converge 2025.

In this article, we identify the top 10 most impactful articles for pediatric hospital medicine in 2025, as presented at the Pediatric Update at SHM Converge 2025 in Las Vegas. Four publications are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

When I meet new people, I’m commonly asked, “So what do you do?” The first answer is easy: “I’m a doctor.” It’s the follow-up question that’s tricky: “What kind of doctor?” “I’m a hospitalist,” I say.