Article
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,...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Article
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...
Opinion
Females and the Future of Hospital Medicine
April 13, 2023
I was unknowingly the future of hospital medicine, but it was a future that almost didn’t come true. The first time I stepped onto the hospital wards was with a physician who called himself a...
Opinion
The Future of Hospital Medicine
April 13, 2023
In the future, the hospital's heart will beat With a rhythm that is new and sweet. Technology, including AI's might, Will aid patient care innovation, day and night. The hospitalist will...