Article
The Primary Drivers of Burnout
July 30, 2025
I have read many essays on physician burnout over the years. However, I feel that the nail has yet to be hit directly on the head regarding this insidious scourge afflicting our profession. Most...
Article
Who Do You Trust?
July 30, 2025
In the Age of “Make America Healthy Again,” Universities Must Lead the Charge Against Health Misinformation It was a Tuesday morning on the Caltrain. A young woman sat across from me with her...
Article
Finding My Path in Inpatient Medicine: A Family Medicine Resident’s Reflection
June 25, 2025
My name is Mehran, and I’m currently transitioning into my second year as a family medicine resident at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I chose this specialty with a deep passion for...
Article
Reflections After Attending on an Oncology Hospitalist Service for Three Years
June 24, 2025
1. The Privilege of Immediate Impact Unlike many inpatient services, the oncology hospitalist role often means managing pivotal moments in a patient’s cancer journey. The admission might reflect a...
Opinion
A Face to Face
February 11, 2025
In late 2022, I began developing notable facial discoloration that was spreading around my temples, then periorbitally, and eventually down my cheeks. After two rounds of biopsies, it was eventually...
Article
Hope in Tough Times
February 3, 2025
Scanning the labs of the woman I am admitting from the emergency department, I see a calcium of 12. “Oh no,” the thought jumps to the front of my mind, “This might be from a recurrence of her...
Article
RuPaul’s Drag Race Has Made Me a Better Doctor
August 15, 2024
I audibly gasped as Nymphia Wind kick-flipped during her final lip sync for RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR). Shortly thereafter, she was the first East Asian queen crowned “America’s Next Drag...
Article
Love and the Hospitalist
July 1, 2024
Some of the most important lessons I’ve learned in life have come from conversations with my patients. Such was the case with Ms. W a wiry 85-year-old who came in with increasing fatigue and a...
Article
Celebrating the Human in Hospitalist (and Patient)
June 13, 2024
2024 National Hospitalist Day Contest Winner I have a small stack of cards. They sit tucked away in a little envelope in a drawer of the desk in my home office. There aren’t many, and I do not...
Article
A Love Letter to Hospitalists
June 13, 2024
Dear Hospitalist, I am writing this letter as one of you to express my heartfelt gratitude for the silent sacrifices you have made for decades, especially as frontline workers during the COVID-19...