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    Waves

    September 8, 2023

    There we go again. I’m sorry honey. I don’t know why it starts beeping suddenly. I hate to keep bothering you all night. Well, to be honest, my breathing has been a little shallow tonight. Yes,...

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    A Vantage Point Amidst Chaos

    July 31, 2023

    Photos are taken from the campus of EvergreenHealth in Kirkland, Wash. The hospital is a vantage point, A window into human existence, Where we see proof...

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    Hospital Ephemera

    April 18, 2023

    Pushed to the forefront by a pandemic. Restrictions lifted we bring teaching back to the bedside. POCUS shows us the pleural effusion before the X-ray tech arrives. Bedside procedures. We still see...

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    Year 2033

    April 18, 2023

    Let’s fast forward health care to, say 2033. Here Hospitalists are treasured & hold the Hospital’s key. Not just any, we are “THE” Doc, For our community, we are that Rock. We are the...

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    Slow Down!

    April 18, 2023

    Slow down dear doc, rest your tired feet, Your Fitbit reads 20k steps, it’s 2 p.m. & you are beat! Multiple rounds of ER-Med Tele & OBS floor, This hamster wheel is spinning out of...

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    Thank You, My Fellow Hospitalists

    April 18, 2023

    Thank you, my fellow hospitalists, For being compassionate, and brave, and bold, For being an advocate for the young and the old, For every transfer accepted, from near or far, For every page...

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    Through the Lingering Smoke

    April 18, 2023

    No one told you How the smoke would linger On your clothes and in your hair Lining your nostrils You swear it lives inside your skin Somehow At times you forget Then catch the scent again You...

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    The Future of Hospital Medicine…Is Connected

    April 18, 2023

    Recently someone on Twitter, supposedly a physician, replied to one of my tweets calling out misinformation and tried to catch me in some trap about vaccine-induced cardiac events. She went on to...

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    Turn Back the Clocks

    April 18, 2023

    Turn Back the Clocks   Dr. Beddow is a hospitalist and hospitalist quality/safety medical director for Allina Health system in Minnesota and western Wisconsin.   Turn Back the Clocks is...

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    Passing the Baton

    April 13, 2023

    Passing the Baton Ms. Shahrrava Ms. Shahrrava is a 4th-year medical student at St. George’s University School of Medicine  2023 National Hospitalist Day HM Voices Contest Winner