AMIA 2026 FOMO Generator: Hospital of the Rising Sun and Storytelling

Well here we are again. Another ukulele performance. When will he learn that the caterwauling has limited audience? This time the song was in service to a talk about storytelling and the 1-pager

Well here we are again. Another ukulele performance. When will he learn that the caterwauling has limited audience? This time the song was in service to a talk about storytelling and the 1-pager.

Seriously, I gave one of the AMIA Incite education talks in Dallas this week.

My topic this time? storytelling and the 1-pager. It turns out, this is one of the secrets to my success. In brief, STORY beats DATA. The only thing that beats STORY is a BETTER STORY backed by data.

In the workshop, I teach the 5C story framework, the ABT framework, the one great quote framework, the Postcard from the future framework and then explain how to fit story and data into an effective one pager.

And of course to illustrate storytelling, what better than the Hospital of the Rising Sun? Song and lyrics below.

Hospital of the Rising Sun (Pandemic version)

[Dm]There is a [F]hospital in [G]Colorado [Bb] they 

[Dm]call the [F]Rising [A7]Sun and [A7]it’s 

[Dm]been the [F]ruin of [G]many a poor [Bb]doc and 

[Dm]God I [A7]know I’m [Dm]one [A7]

For the only thing a doctor needs

Is a paper sheet and a pen

To jot a prescription, hard to read

An error, on its way, he sends

One day, I saw computer screens

Replacing those old charts

The floors swarmed with eager red-shirts

No place for us old farts

At first, we had a tough ol’ time

Pandemic fever on the rise!

We were not so sure that we’d survive

With keyboards and mice to sanitize

Oh mother tell your children 

Not to do what I have done

I’ve ignored those alerts and reminders

In the Hospital of the Rising Sun

But then, something changed, in the air, one night

Those sepsis cases, we had none!

With predictive alerts, and surveillance teams

In the Hospital of the Rising Sun 

Well, I got one foot in my deep dark past 

And one foot in the car 

I’m goin’ back to Colorado

To be an Epic Star

Well, there is a hospital in Colorado 

They call the Rising Sun 

And it’s been the savior of many a poor doc 

And God I know I’m one.