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    Oshibana

    July 31, 2025

    Your arms, crooked in the crevices of stark hospital white the bloom of tulips on fleece blanketing like knobby, gnarly trunks of aged birch trees that have learned to grow parallel with each...

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    Countertransference

    July 31, 2025

    He raises his head, fingers curled gently around the tiny ankle of the child on the bed – “I lost my grandson last year,” he says, quiet undertone to rustle of sheets from the next room...

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    Lost Hope

    January 15, 2025

    As I enter his room, I am taken aback He’s healthy and strong And his eyes full of spark He’s pleading to me please don’t give me bad news Give me something to hold to, some hope I can...

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    Pleading Eyes

    January 15, 2025

    His yellow eyes, his yellow skin, kept watching me As I enter in His soul was begging to keep going Although inside me, I was knowing He wouldn’t last another week He would be gone within a...

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    Stones

    June 13, 2024

    2024 National Hospitalist Day Contest Winner A walk in this place I’ve known for so long Upon its dark soil, I sing a solemn song I was a child in which oblivion one could find Now knowledge of...

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    A Hospitalist Haiku

    June 13, 2024

    Me. White Coat. Stoic. You. Blue gown. Waiting for news. I cry. You collapse.   Submission for the 2024 National Hospitalist Day Contest Dr. Childers is a hospitalist and physician...

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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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    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...