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	<title>The Hospitalist Leader</title>
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		<title>Hazing Rituals for New Hospitalists</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=414</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpercelay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruiting & Staffing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Percelay writes&#8230; September, kids are off to school, football resumes, and new grads start hospitalist careers.   Part of the orientation we provide new hires should be anticipation and emotional preparation for any hazing rituals they might face from patients, hospitalist and other physician colleagues, and, perhaps most challenging of all, nurses. Maybe “hazing” isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is The Guy from IHI?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=395</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bflansbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, this op-ed  by Dr. Berwick appeared in the Washington Post. To my knowledge, this was his first foray into the mainstream media, and I was anxious to read his coming out declaration. Midway into the piece however, I needed to read the author’s name again, as I was not sure if the writer was Robert Gibbs or David Axelrod, or Berwick himself.

Has the man lost his voice? ]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICO Headline, 1865: Lincoln Saves Union…But Can He Save House Majority.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=375</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bflansbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public Policy Contributor Brad Flansbaum writes… That line came from none other than Barack Obama at the Whitehouse Correspondents dinner this year, obviously lampooning the glass as half empty, 24/7 news cycle machine. Normally, I accept the tabloid trough feed of the day, the presumed inspiration for the above laugh line, with my usual healthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Plains Drifter, MD</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=367</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=367#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mradzienda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“There’s a new sheriff in town. “ That’s what my former Chairman told me as he suggested I “update” my CV last fall.  Within two weeks, he announced his resignation and, shortly after, I was informed that there would be a “new direction” in the department of medicine. Five clinical chairs in the college had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Swiss Miss&#8230;Or Maybe Not?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=350</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=350#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bflansbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public Policy Contributor Brad Flansbaum writes… Oft cited as a template on which to base U.S. health reform (along with the Dutch system), I have always found the Swiss model of great interest.  I read with allure an interview with Switzerland’s former health minister, Thomas Zeltner, in the latest edition of Health Affairs (firewall).  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted &#8211; Master of None</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=347</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=347#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tahlstrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effectiveness/Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Troy Ahlstrom writes&#8230; Our group has partnered with facilities that have need for Hospitalists capable of the fullest spectrum of hospital-based patient care.  The ICUs are busy.  Step-down and med-surg floors turn patients over quickly.  A steady stream of stress tests rolls through non-invasive cardiology.  But they’re not all busy at the same time… excepting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much money should a hospitalist make?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=329</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=329#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruiting & Staffing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Nelson writes&#8230; We now have access to the latest version of what in my opinion is clearly the best national source of data on hospitalist workload, compensation and other metrics:  MGMA’s Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2010 Report Based on 2009 Data.  This September, SHM and MGMA will jointly release the State of Hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHM and ACO&#8217;s: All Systems Slow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=322</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=322#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bflansbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public Policy Contributor Brad Flansbaum writes&#8230; I follow the literature on Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) because of its topical nature and its promise, as well as how it may fast track needed change in our healthcare delivery system.  I have written on this subject once before, and wish to return to it. A Google search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW SMALL IS TOO SMALL?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=320</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=320#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effectiveness/Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning (strategic, business plans)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recruiting & Staffing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Nelson writes . . . Recently one of our blog readers wrote in with the following question for our blogging team: Our small general IM group (3) is interested in starting a hospitalist group for our small community hospital (50bed) because neither our group or our family practice groups can recruit without one. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fraudulent Billing by Hospitalists?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=316</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.hospitalmedicine.org/SHMPracticeManagementBlog/?p=316#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jpercelay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Percelay writes&#8230; Recently I’ve heard some allegations about fraudulent billing by hospitalists.    I expect this allegation may well relate to inherent inadequacies in current CPT coding. As a pediatric hospitalist working in the PICU, I  am able  to use  daily global codes for patients less than 5 years of age, but such codes aren’t [...]]]></description>
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