“Why is this doctor carrying around a folding chair?” I asked myself. Mark Fischer, MD had just entered the room for our pre-planning interview at the Port Angeles hospital carrying a folding chair and his EMR computer tablet.

When I did ask why, Dr. Fischer gave me his impactful insight. As a pulmonologist / intensivist he was getting frustrated that in many of the hospital locations where he needed to talk to patients or their families he had no place to sit so that he could be at eye level in order to better connect. After much “due diligence” he selected a $9.95 chair that is now a constant companion on his hospital rounds. He opines, “This $9.95 chair positively impacts quality patient care more than this computer.”