Welcome to the 2023 edition of the VIM Journal. The clinical team at Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Hilton Head Island has a long tradition of accumulating practical advice for our partners at the Clinic and across the nation. We are pleased to present this year’s collection for your reading enjoyment. We hope you might glean something of value and equally would love to hear back from you regarding your thoughts and experiences. These articles are meant to be pragmatic and thought-provoking. Many of us in the free and charitable clinic space come from a subspecialty background but spend our days trying to make small core improvements in the health and wellness of our patients. Perhaps the greatest message the VIM Journal sends is that you are not alone.
Thank you for all you do for our patients and we truly hope that you are finding purpose and joy in the medicine you are practicing. There is a reason we keep coming back to the Clinic. Perhaps some of the work we do will get us into heaven and perhaps some of the work we do might keep us out of hell. At the end of the day, we give all we can and leave with more than we showed up with. I guess that is the secret to healing ourselves.
Thank you for being part of the solution.
