“Don’t worry, at least we will die together!”

by David Hilden, MD MPH | May 11, 2017 | Dr. Hilden's reflections, Humanities and Medicine

Hi, friends! In this post I simply want to invite you to read an essay I wrote which was recently published in a journal I admire.  Called Intima: a journal of narrative medicine, it is a literary place where medicine is explored through story, narrative non-fiction,...

Butterflies and bacteria: thoughts on a healthy planet

by David Hilden, MD MPH | Jan 7, 2017 | Dr. Hilden's reflections, Public Health

My family just returned from a pilgrimage of sorts.  Having returned from a journey to witness one of nature’s miracles – and picking up a bit of a health problem myself –  I’m feeling all butterfly-ish. Please read on for my story and some...

The 36-hour shift

by David Hilden, MD MPH | Nov 5, 2016 | Dr. Hilden's reflections, Health in the News, Medical Education

I was reading the paper this morning over my tea and crumpets when this headline caught my attention: “First-year doctors would be allowed to work 24-hour shifts under new rules” Now there’s a topic near to my heart, so I decided without much...

Reflections (but no pictures) from 9/11 and this week’s Emergency Preparedness topic

by David Hilden, MD MPH | Sep 12, 2016 | Dr. Hilden's reflections, Health in the News, Public Health, Tips from Healthy Matters radio broadcast

A remembrance: Fifteen years ago today at around 8:00 Minneapolis time, I was in the Intensive Care Unit at HCMC.  I was a medical resident on that day doing my rotation in Nephrology and was visiting a critically-ill patient in the ICU with really bad kidney...

The finer things: Beethoven’s 5th, Dutch bicycles, and naked saunas

by David Hilden, MD MPH | Aug 31, 2016 | Diet and exercise, Dr. Hilden's reflections

Beethoven, bicycles in Holland, and naked saunas.  Now if anything screams “get your in-depth medical information here” . . . well let’s just say you’ve come to the wrong place. But among other things, my life the past two weeks has involved,...

Book club! How Doctors Think

by David Hilden, MD MPH | Jul 7, 2016 | Dr. Hilden's reflections, Healthy Matters Book Club, Humanities and Medicine, Medical Education

Hi, everybody!  For about 2 months I’ve been yammering both in this blog and on the radio broadcast about the current Healthy Matters online book club selection, and it’s time to get to it!  As they say in billiards .. “Quit talking and start...