ink+oxygen
A Valentine’s note that skips the pink hearts and goes straight to the real one: the four-chambered muscle that keeps you in the game. VO2 max, rowing, breathing, and the quiet work of maintenance.
ink+oxygen
A snow day that wasn't, a 0.2 mm pencil, and what Crucial Conversations gets right about drawing: keep your lines light until you know where the structure is.
teaching Edition
This Teaching Edition explores what happens in the brain and body when anger takes over the nervous system, how to bring it back online as a physician, parent, and human.
teaching Edition
ICU communication isn’t a vibe. It’s a system families can feel. Using ARMOR as a framework, this Tuesday Teaching Edition explains how huddles, daily goals, and structured rounds can create clarity, safety, and trust.
NotesfromBoka
The cold didn’t bring snow. It brought clarity. Warmth is not just heat. Warmth is behavior: a hug, Persian tea, niche music, and a yellow dream world on a wall.
ink+oxygen
A story about heat, breath, and learning to stay present when the truth burns.
Internal Medicine
Notes from BOKA. Medicine, meaning, living. Bow ties, pipes, bookcases, and the quiet joy of thinking out our in internal medicine. Stay curious.
teaching Edition
Sepsis doesn’t usually announce itself loudly at first. It holds itself together until it can’t.
BokaMD
I read my kids a Persian story about three dolls the other night. By week’s end, it had followed me into the ICU. Some moments ask for speed. Others ask for listening that stays. Notes from BOKA: Medicine, Meaning, Living.
medicine
INK+OXYGEN by Dr. Boka. A reflection on the quiet weight of responsibility in medicine, leadership, and daily life.
gratitude
A Back to the Future theater night, a Hobonichi year review, and one simple plan to build 2026 with more attention, more reverence, and more oxygen.
art
A Christmas morning at the kitchen table—drawing with my kids, thinking about breathing rhythms in the ICU, and learning why showing up matters more than being productive.
