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What Hospital Medicine Has Meant to Me
August 3, 2026
It is cliché to say, but I will say it: hospital medicine is not just a job. It is my classroom, my community, and now my professional and personal identity. When I reflect on the moments that have...
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What “ER” Promised and “The Pitt” Delivered
August 3, 2026
The first time I watched “ER”, I wasn’t thinking about admissions, throughput metrics, or RVUs. I was a teenager sitting too close to the television, captivated by the rhythm of a hospital that...
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The Patient Beyond the Chart
March 17, 2026
Every hospitalist knows the feeling: You open a new chart, and it feels like a wall. A patient with a dozen chronic conditions, care fragmented across multiple hospitals, specialists scattered across...
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Charting After Dark: The EHR Writes Its Own Adventure
December 19, 2025
There’s a special kind of delirium that descends sometime between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., when caffeine metabolism has stalled, and the glow of the EHR becomes your only companion. That’s when...
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From Genocide to Healing: The Rebirth of Cambodia’s Hospital System
October 23, 2025
In October 2023, Dr. Brodkin spent two weeks volunteering in Kampot, Cambodia, where he taught medical residents and supervised patient care at the local hospital. During that time, he developed a...
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What It Means to Lead: Motherhood, Medicine, and Redefining the Possible
September 16, 2025
Being a woman in medicine is powerful. Being a mother in medicine is redefining leadership through transformation, compassion, and resilience. On September 11, 2025, at the Society of Hospital...
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The ABCs of Hospitalist Leadership in Graduate Medical Education: Advancing Care, Building Community, and Creating Opportunity
July 31, 2025
As we celebrated National Hospitalist Day 2025 and reflect on this year’s theme—the ABCs of Hospitalists’ impact—Advancing care, Building community, and Creating opportunity—it is fitting...
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The Love in Medicine
July 31, 2025
The excitement of loving medicine stems from its unique blend of science, compassion, and problem-solving. Medicine is not merely a profession; it is a calling that intertwines the pursuit of...
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Different Spheres
July 31, 2025
Shana* was a young adult admitted for more than two weeks with a painful sickle cell episode when our team came on service. Even though I knew her from a previous admission, she was wary of so many...
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Going Home
July 31, 2025
She promised herself that this would be the last time, no matter what. She is tired and wants to go home. This is the visit that tipped the scale. Literally. That damn scale was the source of this...