• Article

    Love and the Hospitalist

    July 1, 2024

    Some of the most important lessons I’ve learned in life have come from conversations with my patients. Such was the case with Ms. W a wiry 85-year-old who came in with increasing fatigue and a...

  • Gratitude is Good for Us

    November 1, 2023

    As our discussion about discharge ended, Ms. Jones, stooped, her thin grey hair pulled back, and moved slowly toward her husband’s hospital bed. Gently, she stroked his head and said, “We will...

  • Article

    Finding Beauty in Our Patients’ Lives

    October 4, 2023

    Awe as a path to greater resilience for hospitalists With her grey hair pulled back and wearing her Sunday best, Ms. W. gracefully rose from the chair and approached the hospital bed where her...

  • Prescriptions for health and happiness

    May 2, 2022

    In addition to all the fear and chaos it has wreaked, COVID-19 has changed the way we think about our health. Thanks to the psychological, and even the physical, impacts of protracted quarantines and...

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    Opinion

    Understanding the grieving process

    June 17, 2021

    Research has found that efforts to find meaning in loss facilitates the grieving process.

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    Opinion

    Cultivating emotional awareness

    May 24, 2021

    Cultivating emotional awareness is a simple technique to maintain equanimity as we do emotionally turbulent work.

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    Opinion

    Masks, fear, and loss of connection in the era of COVID-19

    May 14, 2020

    The deep feeling of connection with patients feels like “fraying threads moving further apart,” because of the havoc created by the coronavirus.

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    Opinion

    A “Ray of light”

    June 14, 2019

    There is value in looking for inspiration in the patients you care for.