Hilary Hatch

Nov 25, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Steve Burgess |Nathaniel Fleming |Elaine Walizer |Hilary Hatch

When a 26-year-old male with a history of tracheostomy arrived in our emergency department, the case appeared routine—until we uncovered an unusual detail. The patient’s sister had recently changed his tracheostomy tube at home but noticed something concerning afterward: the terminal piece, or the distal end of the tube, was missing. Despite searching, the piece couldn’t be found.

Nov 24, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Hilary Hatch |Jonathan Peters |Cindy Thompson |Richard Liebowitz

In previous flu seasons, only about half of all Americans got the flu shot. Now we face pan-respiratory season, when we must worry about RSV, COVID, and the flu. The good news is these vaccines are lifesaving. The bad news is that if people don’t get them, they aren’t very effective and we might see fewer people get them at all. As a clinical psychologist, I’ve spent my career thinking about what motivates people to take an active role in their health.

Jul 1, 2024 | medcitynews.com | Hilary Hatch

When people say, “in an instant, your whole life can change,” you think of being hit by a car or diagnosed with cancer, but that moment happens to the 360 Americans who begin dialysis each day. Dialysis keeps them alive, but it’s debilitating, expensive and consumes a person’s time and quality of life. Too many people who experience this shock never knew they were sick until the moment they are told their kidneys have failed.

May 20, 2024 | statnews.com | Hilary Hatch

I was 31 years old when my mother was dying of breast cancer. One day, while sitting with her in the hospital, her oncologist asked me a question no one had ever asked me before: “Have you had a mammogram yet?”Even though my mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 34, I had never thought about getting a mammogram or discussed it with my doctor. The problem wasn’t that I didn’t have access to health care.