Laura Vater, MD

Published via STAT News It was 5 o’clock in the morning, and I entered the room of my eighth admission. A thin man was reclined in bed, a...

Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology October 2024 I kept her family holiday card tucked into the side pocket of my black...

Published in the Intimal Journal of Narrative Medicine Fall 2021 A white rose was taped to the door, and I pushed the metal handle to...

Published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, June 2020 We sit at grouped desks, eyes on blinking green pagers then back to...

Published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, April 2021 “Mommy, will you sing the valley song?” my three-year-old daughter...

Published in The Intima, Fall 2021 I watch the sun descend from the hallway of the ICU, again covering the unit for the night....

Julie carried the news of two diagnoses, coming just weeks after burying her son: Multiple myeloma and amyloidosis were the unfamiliar...

Published in Blood and Thunder: Musing on the Art of Medicine ​ Four Walls Laura Vater, MD, MPH Published in Blood and Thunder: Musings...

(Published on MDLinx) After months of long hours and fractured sleep as a resident, followed by a stressful 28-hour call, I sat in the...

My mom was life-lined to a critical care unit. I was a first-year med student, and I remember only pieces of that first day...