Andy Lamb is an internal medicine physician. He can be reached at Bugle Notes.
Dr. Lamb is a 1977 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a 1984 graduate of the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Medicine. He did his internal medicine training through the Army at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Augusta, GA, and has practiced for more than 30 years.
He has been involved in leadership at all levels to include as a senior executive physician leader in a hospital system. His passion is investing in, teaching, encouraging, and mentoring, especially our future health care providers and leaders.
In 2014, Dr. Lamb began writing monthly stories called Bugle Notes to the hospital medical staff he led as a way of helping to address the increasing problem of burnout among health care providers across this country. The stories were written to remind physicians and other providers that what they do is important, what they do makes a difference every day, and what they do is still a privilege. We all need to be reminded that we are valued and appreciated.
Since 2000, he has led 44 short term international medical missions to 8 countries for Global Health Outreach. He is an avid fly fisherman and also enjoys fly tying and fly rod building among many other interests.
Andy Lamb is an internal medicine physician. He can be reached at Bugle Notes.
Dr. Lamb is a 1977 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and a 1984 graduate of the University of Alabama in Birmingham School of Medicine. He did his internal medicine training through the Army at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Augusta, GA, and has practiced for more than 30 years.
He has been involved in leadership at all levels to include as a senior executive physician leader in a hospital system. His passion is investing in, teaching, encouraging, and mentoring, especially our future health care providers and leaders.
In 2014, Dr. Lamb began writing monthly stories called Bugle Notes to the hospital medical staff he led as a way of helping to address the increasing problem of burnout among health care providers across this country. The stories were written to remind physicians and other providers that what they do is important, what they do makes a difference every day, and what they do is still a privilege. We all need to be reminded that we are valued and appreciated.
Since 2000, he has led 44 short term international medical missions to 8 countries for Global Health Outreach. He is an avid fly fisherman and also enjoys fly tying and fly rod building among many other interests.
It was a beautiful Spring day. My wife and I were returning from UNC-Chapel Hill after visiting our oldest son. Driving on Highway 54, I suddenly saw a young woman on the left side of the road frantically waving her arms and screaming. Behind her, a pickup truck had crashed into a tree. I immediately stopped the car. That’s when I saw him. Lying, unmoving, on his back was a …
I rounded recently on a 100-year-old veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. It was a terrible and costly battle fought in Belgium during the winter of 1945, the coldest and snowiest in memory at that time. The German army made a desperate last stand against an increasingly overwhelming US force. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. He was there. He lived it. It is not a forgotten memory …
Abraham Verghese’s must-read book, Cutting for Stone, addresses powerfully the human side of medicine. It is a poignant reminder of the sacredness within medicine created by the unique bond that is the doctor-patient relationship. We are allowed into that most intimate space, the life of a person at their most vulnerable and frightened time.
In the book, a prominent surgeon reads a letter to the house staff from a grieving mother. …
She reached for my hand, her hands gnarled, the skin fragile, translucent, road mapped by bluish veins: Hands that had done much in her 87 years. She looked at me from her hospital bed and with voice trembling, her eyes tearing, spoke words that penetrated my heart: “Can I stay here? Everyone is so kind. I am all alone now. I have no family or friends left. I have no …
His breathing was rapid and shallow; O2 in place, his eyes stared at the ceiling of the hospital room. He was a soldier in his late 20s, his once strong body now emaciated, a shell of its former self. His arms rested on top of the bedsheet, bluish nodular lesions of Kaposi’s sarcoma landscaping them as they did the rest of his body. His lungs a “white-out” on X-ray as …
I have cared for them both, husband and wife, now in their 80s, for almost 20 years. She is a retired nurse and him from his business. They are so typical of this “greatest generation”: tough, enduring, hard-working, deeply faithful, fervently independent, those characteristics that allowed them to survive the Great Depression, World War II, and the many challenges that come with life. They have seen their share of joy …
Three straws held in hand, each a different length, a decision to be made. It was September 1990. The hospital commander held them, so they appeared equal in length. The instructions were simple: The long one wins. The consequences, though, were not: separation from family, physical and emotional hardship, possible injury, and even death. There were three of us, Army physicians assigned to the hospital at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. We …
I have had the privilege to serve alongside hundreds of nurses in the nearly 40 years since I started medical school. This includes inpatient and outpatient settings and 20 years of leading medical missions around the world. There are five amazing nurses in my family as well. I have learned from every nurse with whom I have served. This has made me a more compassionate, caring, and empathetic person, and …
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