Oh How I Love Erasing That Board

The easiest way to keep track of all the patients we are seeing who remain inpatient is to write them all on the resident room white board. It's very easy sometimes for this board to become completely filled with names, locations, and diagnoses.

But every once in a while there is opportunity to start erasing names. People who no longer need our expertise, people who have been discharged, or, more sadly, people who have died become little more than a black smudge at the extreme edges of the board.

I know this is short, but damn it's a good feeling.