• 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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    Beyond the Dashboard

    June 13, 2024

    As a hospitalist, I am accustomed to dashboards measuring my performance by length of stay, number of hours in observation, and catheter-acquired infections. When these metrics are unfavorable, the...