Eric Howell, MD, SFHM: Solving the Puzzles of Hospital Medicine
Before The White Coat
Growing up in Annapolis, MD, Dr. Eric Howell was fascinated by solving puzzles and finding out how things worked. He often took things apart so he could try to put them back together – from hair dryers to the transmission in his father's car. ...
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Jeffrey J. Glasheen, MD, SFHM: Dedicated to Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
Before The White Coat
After witnessing firsthand the impact of a severe medical error on a family member, Dr. Jeffrey Glasheen learned that these situations were not caused solely by knowledge deficiencies, but rather by faults in systems and processes. This realization led him to a career as a hospitalist, rooted in quality improvement and patient safety.
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Gregory Maynard, MD, MSc, SFHM: From Small-Town Boy to Chief Quality Officer
Before The White Coat
From playing the lead in his high school class play to becoming the Chief Quality Officer at the University of California Davis, Dr. Gregory Maynard explains his storied journey to a career in academic hospital medicine.
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Dr. Patrick Cawley on Medicine, Leadership and Business
Before The White Coat
“How do I create a career combining medicine and business?" ...
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Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR, SFHM
Before The White Coat
Watch out, Sanjay Gupta! SHM board member and physician editor of The Hospitalist Danielle Scheurer may be coming for your job.
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Tracy Cardin, ACNP
Before The White Coat
Hospital medicine is a team sport. And nurse practitioners and physician assistants are an important part of the hospitalist team.
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Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, MHM
Before The White Coat
When Dr. Mary Jo Gorman’s hospitalist practice was acquired by IPC in 1999, she became responsible for the rapid growth of the hospitalist model in the Midwest, growing from 50 physicians to hundreds in multiple cities in just a few years. ...
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John Nelson, MD, MHM
Before The White Coat
Before he was one of the original architects of the hospitalist movement, John Nelson, MD, MHM, was a magician, worked in a gas station and even cleaned out an abandoned hotel with a convicted felon.
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Mark V. Williams, MD, MHM
Before The White Coat
As a young boy, Dr. Mark Williams broke his arm. What happened next inspired him to become a doctor. ...
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Brian Harte, MD, SFHM
Before The White Coat
“I never really knew what I wanted to be. […] What I really liked doing was working, building or being part of a team that worked really well together on problems, or issues, or challenges or opportunities that we saw as compelling.” ...
info_outlineBefore Robert Wachter sparked the hospital medicine movement by coining the word "hospitalist" in 1996, he was the answer to a trivia question: "Who was the school mascot for the last Ivy League team to go to the Final Four?"
In the first episode of Before The White Coat, Bob Wachter talks about his career progression -- from his first job as a golf caddy to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, residency at UCSF and the very moment he recognized hospital medicine as a specialty and said "This is it. This is the model."