Rebekah Schiefer
During a busy day of teaching rounds with family medicine residents, a social worker finds herself noticing the constant pull between connecting with patients as people and keeping up with the relentless demands of "the list." Through three clinical encounters, she reflects on what it means to teach and model humanism in a fast-paced inpatient setting, where the emotional and human needs of residents can be overlooked just as easily as those of the patients they care for.