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For this month's Equity and Belonging section, we asked our DEI summer intern, Ilsa Siddiqui, to share a few words on what "Health Equity in Hospital Medicine" means to them:
"We've all seen that image that explains equity as a step stool of different heights, customized to each person's needs, so that they can watch the neighborhood baseball game above the fence. Similarly, in hospital medicine, health equity ideation and practice looks different patient to patient. The social determinants and circumstances influencing a patient's health and life trajectory, get magnified when admitted to the hospital.
To me, health equity in hospital medicine is a system of care that treats each patient independently, delivering fine-tuned care molded to each patient's circumstances and health conditions. It considers what the patient's life looked like before hospitalization, and what it will look like after care, so they can get back to or beyond their 100% as they transition from the hospital back to their daily lives. That's why I am invested in my project supporting the new physician-to-patient question: "What Matters Most to You Today?" Patients, whether outpatient in a clinic or inpatient in a hospital, deserve to be asked - and heard - about their own priorities as they receive care."
- Ilsa Siddiqui, Summer '24 DEI/QI DHM Intern
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