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Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, share a behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine, from how hospitalists navigate through the hospital, handle burnout and hospital food, and deal with patients.

Opiates and the media

Published in the July 2017 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

opiates progress notes

The quest for immortality in the ICU

quality of life

A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital wards. See all Progress Notes here.

immortality in the ICU

Published in the September 2019 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

If airports were like hospitals …

Published in the May 2017 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

Airport-2 Progress notes

New Year’s Eve in the hospital

What do you call a hospitalist

A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital wards. See all Progress Notes here.

Bringing in the New Year in the hospital

Published in the December 2019 issue of Today’s Hospitalist 

A capital idea

hospital patients

Published in the October 2018 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

Take a look at some other Progress Notes: these cartoon commentaries written by a hospitalist take a unique look at sources of frustration in hospital medicine, from burnout and observation status to interactions with other specialties.

Hospitals by the numbers

Published in the June 2018 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

The balance of sacrifice 
in the covid era

A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital wards. See all Progress Notes here.

balance-covid

Published in the March/April 2021 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

Hospital medicine conference 2020

pleasure

A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital wards. See all Progress Notes here.

SHM conference

Thanksgiving in the ER

thanskgiving-ED

A behind-the-scenes artistic view of hospital medicine. This month’s retrospective focuses on Thanksgiving in the ED. Leo Motter, MD, and Dan Langsdale, BA, tackle a variety of stressors, successes and everyday occurrences seen on hospital wards. See all Progress Notes here.

Published in the November/December 2022 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

Reality check

Published in the November 2018 issue of Today’s Hospitalist

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