{"id":4113,"date":"2010-10-25T10:37:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:45:25","slug":"the-empty-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/10\/25\/the-empty-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CardioExchange welcomes this guest post reprinted with permission from\u00a0Dr. Westby Fisher, an electrophysiologist practicing at\u00a0NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at\u00a0University of Chicago\u2019s Pritzker School of Medicine.\u00a0This piece originally appeared on his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/drwes.blogspot.com\/\">Dr. Wes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It stands as a monument to a bygone era; clean, quiet, spacious. Mail cubbies adorn the wall with hundreds of names beneath each one \u2014 most with dust, but a few contain a few pieces of multi-colored papers within. A bulletin board sits on a wall with skewed notices of a car for sale, a house to rent, or an upcoming meeting \u2014 hoping, somehow, that someone will take notice. In the back, an oversized coffee pot sits with day-old coffee and a few styrofoam cups where once there was a fruit basket, granola bars, yogurt cups and collection of pastries. A few lockers have padlocks, but whether they are opened any longer is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>A desolate expanse. If a breeze blew, you could almost envision tumbleweed passing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not the same anymore in the hospital&#8217;s Doctor Lounge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CardioExchange welcomes this guest post reprinted with permission from\u00a0Dr. Westby Fisher, an electrophysiologist practicing at\u00a0NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at\u00a0University of Chicago\u2019s Pritzker School of Medicine.\u00a0This piece originally appeared on his blog, Dr. Wes. It stands as a monument to a bygone era; clean, quiet, spacious. Mail cubbies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-the-medical-profession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}