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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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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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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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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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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 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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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...