Richard Quinn is an award-winning journalist with 15 years’ experience. He has worked at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and currently is managing editor for a leading commercial real estate publication. His freelance work has appeared in The Jewish State, The Hospitalist, The Rheumatologist, ACEP Now, and ENT Today. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and three cats.
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Dr. Peter Pronovost to Speak to Hospitalists About Healthcare Quality at HM15
Type the name Peter Pronovost into Google and try to make it past the “n” before the word “checklist” pops up.
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Sightseeing, Activities, Events for Hospitalists, Families Attending HM15
Networking, education, and professional refreshment will keep several thousand hospitalists busy during HM15 workdays next month at the Gaylord...
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Hospital Medicine Career Perfect Fit for Hands-On Hospitalist Sowmya Kanikkannan
Sowmya Kanikkannan, MD, SFHM, has medicine in her blood. Stories her physician mother told her when she was a child piqued her curiosity.
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HM15's Top 10 Must-See Sessions
Interested in academia and research? Maybe rapid-fire breakout sessions with hands-on interactivity are your thing? Oh, you’re a new hospitalist...
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Research, Innovations, Clinical Vignettes Poster Competition Draws Record Number of Abstracts to HM15
As program chair for HM15’s scientific abstract competition—also known as the Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes (RIV) competition—...
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Healthcare Improvement Guru Maureen Bisognano Sees Hospitalists As Agents for Change
Scan HM15’s meeting schedule, and you’ll see that two of the three keynote speakers are names most every hospitalist knows. Peter Pronovost, MD....
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Hospitalists on the Hill Day Offers Advocacy-Minded A Voice, Opportunity
Two years ago, when SHM’s annual meeting was last held in the Washington, D.C., area, 113 hospitalists armed with a policy mission swarmed across...
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Key Information Sessions, Speakers, Networking Opportunities for Hospitalists Lined up at HM15
Efren Manjarrez, MD, SFHM, exudes excitement for HM15. As the chair of SHM’s Annual Meeting Committee and course director for the four-day...
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Physician Dashboards, Pay-for-Performance Deliver Better VTE Prophylaxis Rates
The combination of direct feedback from web-based physician dashboards and a pay-for-performance program “significantly improved” hospitalists’...
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Hospitalists Should Brace for Bitter Flu Season
A severe flu season will have hospitalists dealing with increased patient censuses and the struggle of keeping staffers healthy and available,...
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Hospitalist Joshua Allen-Dicker, MD, MPH, Optimistic About Future of Hospital Medicine
As a young student and resident, Joshua Allen-Dicker, MD, MPH, was stunned to see the flip side of medicine—miscommunication, disenfranchised...
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Hospitalist Management Giant Emerges as Sound Physicians, Cogent Healthcare Merge
Sound Physicians' recent acquisition of Cogent Healthcare creates the largest hospitalist management group in the country, which may or may not be...
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Hospitalists Unionize to Avoid Outsourced Management Model
A group of hospitalists in Oregon have formed what is believed to be the first hospitalist union in the country—but it may not be the last....
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Pediatric Hospitalist David Pressel, MD, Hooked on Hospital Medicine
Sometimes a physician’s choice of specialty is borne of one patient, one mentor, or one experience. And then sometimes there’s just a good feeling...
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Hospitalist Adds County Coroner to His Résumé
Hospitalists have taken positions in every corner of healthcare: the C-suite, hospital administration, and even nominee for U.S. surgeon general...