From Crisis to Health: Lessons from the Pandemic

Over the last year I had the privilege to complete the Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD program. At the annual conference for LEAD, I had the privilege of thinking about the previous few years shared some lessons as we move forward. Here’s a link to my talk: Dr. Denitza Blagev – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPxErfv6cq8 Below please find … Continue reading

#ATS2022 – The American Thoracic Society Meeting

We went to talks about the science, but also about the challenge. Holding that we are mothers and also doctors and that we felt we failed at both. We failed at so many things. But we didn’t fail. Because we were there. And here we are. Holding that we took calls about who gets the last ECMO bed or the last ICU bed. Holding these decisions and feeling the weight of it and the guilt, and also holding other places, where those decisions were made differently. How many people did we kill? How many did we help? We did the best we could – is that enough? They tell us it is, and yet some of us are holding and turning things over in our minds, because maybe we could have done more. Maybe we should have turned right when we took a left, but we can’t quite see that left was better. Was it?

Weekly update 8/26/2021

Dear Riverton team, We are so grateful to be here with you.  We hear you and we see you.  This week we were excited to share your great work with Dr. Harrison. He was able to hear from some of our frontline caregivers and to offer support, gratitude and to take back feedback. We really … Continue reading