What’s on Your Nightstand?
Before going to sleep read for half an hour, and in the morning have a book open on your dressing table. -Osler What is on your nightstand? I’m not asking about the NEJM issue from 2013 that you still...
View ArticleThe Artist Arrived First: Anatomy and Art in Italy
Life is short, the art is long. -Hippocrates Aphorism Our pivotal moments today are holding warm hands and discussing issues of survival and comfort. And yet, the journey into medicine began with cold...
View ArticleIf You Are a Doctor, You Are a Teacher.
To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as...
View Article8 days a week: Working like gods and goddesses
7 on/7 off. The backbone that sets the routine for about 50% of hospitalist groups. The 7 days on seem endless, and those days off flash by in an instant. From working hard to hardly working. The...
View ArticleHospitalists: We are not simply providers in the patient journey.
The doctor opened the door after a gentle knock. He was greeted with warmth, offered a seat by Mary, and promptly sat down on the end of the hospital bed. As he sat, the family stood to greet him. They...
View ArticleWho Let the Dogs… into the Hospital?
My daughter dove for the tennis ball and came up with a winner and a bloody shin. Slipping on the tennis court, running and falling around the house, tripping up the stairs, stubbing toes. All signs of...
View ArticleThe Marshmallow Will See You Now
This is the time of year to sit back at night, in front of the fireplace, a cup of hot chocolate in hand, warming up after the coolness of the day. As I sip, I notice the marshmallows bobbing up and...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Can the Chaos Be Controlled?
The choices for conversations are either COVID or Netflix. Coronavirus or the latest binged show. Sports is no longer an option, unless you want to discuss how I made that putt in the homemade mini...
View ArticleOur Journey Out of COVID Hell
“Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third.” —T.?S. Eliot “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”—Dante Hell The humanities are a crucial companion any time, but...
View ArticleWho do you call in those late, quiet hours, when all seems lost?
I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygeia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this...
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