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There are few things in hospital medicine as predictable as sunrise, shift change, and the 2 a.m. phone call announcing that a patient’s blood pressure has reached a number so large it should have its own congressional district. The nurse’s tone is urgent, the vitals are highlighted in red, and the expectation is clear: Do […]

The guitar player of my band, LK, is one of my oldest friends. He can be headstrong sometimes and if you piss him off then Heaven help you, but he works hard to help those around him. During the peak of the pandemic I, as a hospitalist physician, worked in COVID units. As hospitals restricted […]

Some of the bad words and phrases we hear too often in healthcare – and the damage they can do