• Article

    Dear patients…

    October 3, 2022

    Dear patients... Yes, we heal what ails. We also comfort, when all else fails. We apply bandages to physical wounds, suture them well. We apply salve to your emotional scars, listen intently to...

  • Article

    Hospitalists’ Jam Session

    July 1, 2022

    These members of the band performed in Nashville: standing (L to R): Kevin Maguire, Do, FHM, John Nelson, MD, MHM, Robert Zipper, MD, MMM, SFHM, Thomas McIlraith, MD, CLHM, SFHM, and David Lake, MD;...

  • Opinion

    Pandemic

    May 26, 2022

    Here adrift in this ocean I don’t know how long I have been treading water Up a swell Down a swell   Sometimes the water is still like glass Everywhere a new rippling horizon And...

  • Opinion

    What can I tell you of death?

    May 26, 2022

    We do not see it in our clean halls. It is not permitted. We spend our energy on the sick, the dead must be covered and carried away. I do not even know where they go.   When I arrive in...