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Celebrating the Human in Hospitalist Medicine
June 13, 2024
This spring as part of an interview panel, a statement stood out that seemed completely ordinary at first. The candidate in question for our hospitalist program was answering how to best manage...
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The Humans in Hospitalists
June 13, 2024
From admission to discharge, and transfers in and out, We are the captain of the ship. We aim to guide our patients through their hospitalized journey. With the goal of safe...
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A Clinician’s Romance with Uncertainty
March 4, 2024
It all started as a fling; harmless, unburdened. My tryst with uncertainty found its roots in those educational conferences where every case started as a mystery and was resolved with a definitive...
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My Journey
November 1, 2023
A startling diagnosis All of a sudden, I was sitting on the other side of the table from another physician, not a patient. I was not discussing my cholesterol levels, blood pressure, or anemia, but...
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...
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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...
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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...