Hector Baillie
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 8/5/2024
Pushing pills and curing ills
How long have physicians been pushing remedies for asymptomatic disease? - 7/22/2024
Context: an integral tool for educating patients
‘Well Bill, your master spark plug is getting rusty,’ I said to a 72-year-old retired mechanical engineer. - 6/19/2024
The retirement glidepath
Having had the privilege to re-write so many patients epilogues through his care, Dr. Hector Baillie reflects on the complicated task of creating his own. - 6/5/2024
The value of observation
You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to practice the powerful art of observation—after all, his literary inventor was a physician. - 5/27/2024
Gout
I got a bad strep throat, and antibiotics did the trick. Two weeks later, I awoke with a painful, erythematous, tender and swollen right forefoot. - 5/26/2024
Reflections from the ER: Aleysha’s story
One critical event debriefing in 35 years says a lot about the way we treat ourselves. We can do better. - 4/10/2024
Code Blue
I was sitting in the cafeteria, taking a break from hospital work. My mind was somewhere else, maybe my patient list, or a book, or thinking about dinner. In an instant, I knew exactly where I was, and how fast time passed as I ran down the corridor. - 3/26/2024
AM or PM? That is the question
There are two things certain in life: death and taxes. If our patients die, how important is it that we convey to next of kin an accurate cause of death? - 2/22/2024
Insecurity in health
We have vaccines and antibiotics, surgeries and nutritional diets, housing and protective institution—we just have to make them work together. - 2/8/2024
It's ok to make a 'mystake'
Mistakes need to be identified, analysed, reported and studied—so we don’t make them again.
