Case Presentation: A 44-year-old man with multiple myeloma and cardiac amyloidosis on chemotherapy, and atrial fibrillation on apixaban, presented with three days of worsening shortness of breath and edema. He was admitted to the emergency room observation unit for treatment of a mild heart failure exacerbation. He was noted on admission to have rapidly developed [...]

Background: Imagine opening your patients’ electronic medical record (EMR) and seeing their stories, as told by them. Would that help you understand your patients better, both their resilience and the barriers they have faced? Systemic structures of oppression and health provider unconscious bias are root causes of racial, gender and class-based health disparities. Storytelling is [...]

Case Presentation: An 86-year-old woman with a history of COVID-19 and MRSA pneumonia six months prior to presentation and COPD, presented to a local emergency room for abdominal pain related to persistent cough. Other pertinent history included ovarian cancer cured 20 years ago and exposure to tuberculosis when the patient was younger. Computed tomography (CT) [...]

Background: Academic hospital medicine (HM) faculty typically follow clinician educator tracks with academic hospitalists seeing education as their primary motivation for joining academic programs. According to the 2020 State of Hospital Medicine survey, shifts and clinical work hours for academic HM faculty expectations are similar to community practice (ref). Many academic HM faculty are on [...]