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The Care and Feeding of Your Nocturnist: A Field Guide for Diurnals
August 12, 2025
By Someone Who Regrets Writing This at 3:12 a.m. It is a curious feature of modern medical ecosystems that diurnal creatures—those brisk, tie-wearing types or business casual disciples of...
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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...
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Oshibana
July 31, 2025
Your arms, crooked in the crevices of stark hospital white the bloom of tulips on fleece blanketing like knobby, gnarly trunks of aged birch trees that have learned to grow parallel with each...
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The Quarterback of Your Care Team
July 31, 2025
“He’s way too smart—he should’ve gone into fellowship.” That’s what an internal medicine resident said to me one weekend, referring to a colleague who had just signed on to join our...
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New Horizon
July 31, 2025
I painted this in response to the pandemic/at the height of the pandemic—when the death rate was high, and it looked like the whole world that we knew prior was shrinking away and may be...
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Resilience
July 31, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic was very stressful on hospitalists; however, through our tenacity and resilience, we continue to shine through. Watercolor 2025 National Hospitalist Day HM Voices Contest...
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Countertransference
July 31, 2025
He raises his head, fingers curled gently around the tiny ankle of the child on the bed – “I lost my grandson last year,” he says, quiet undertone to rustle of sheets from the next room...