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.
The lead author of a new Journal of Hospital Medicine report says one step hospitalists can take toward reducing preventable rehospitalizations is ide...
Studies show nearly one in three hospitalists will experience long-term exhaustion or diminished interest in their work.1 Burned out physicians have l...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Cherry trees weren’t the only things that blossomed around Washington last month. SHM’s annual meeting, with roughly 2,500 attend...
[caption id="attachment_9297" align="alignright" width="262"] Maureen Bisognano, president and CEO of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, talks a...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Armed with blue folders chockablock with agendas, talking points, and fact sheets, about 100 hospitalists boarded three charter b...
[caption id="attachment_9306" align="alignright" width="295"] Donald Tashkin, MD, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., talks about his poster in the RIV post...
QUESTION: SHM CEO Larry Wellikson, MD, MHM, calls the country’s roughly 48,000 hospitalists “agents of change.” The Hospitalist asked HM15 why is it i...
[caption id="attachment_9331" align="alignright" width="295"] Instructor Sophia Rodgers, ACNP, (right) works with HM15 attendee David Quach during the...
QUESTION: Quality improvement guru Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimo...
[caption id="attachment_9287" align="alignright" width="300"] LEFT: Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM, kicks off the speaker series with his presentat...
Nancy Zeitoun, MD, FHM, sees her expanding role as a leader at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y., as a chance to make a differe...
