https://www.hannasaltzman.com/links daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/74682b73-c382-4cea-bbe4-7fa3c19ea934/Hanna+Saltzman+2022+1824.jpg Links - Physician | Writer | Advocate Dr. Hanna Saltzman MD is a writer and pediatrician in Salt Lake City. She writes about children’s health, nature, and their messy and beautiful intersections. https://www.hannasaltzman.com/bio daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/eeff3cac-2174-4fce-9d07-c2661baca466/Hanna+Saltzman+2022+1810.jpg Bio https://www.hannasaltzman.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/64e74b10-4994-4a56-837d-14b1f07a83c0/clouds.jpeg Publications - Gravity “Wonder spreads his eyelids, white crescents curving above his irises, newborn moons that magnetize the tides of me.” River Teeth, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1ce3e5f6-6dad-453c-95b6-8065842de787/Spiral-jetty-from-rozel-point.png Publications - Halophilia Adapted from: Iatrogenesis asdf asdf asdf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/e5de570e-0adb-403c-8ee2-f1e71d2065d1/noah-buscher-x8ZStukS2PM-unsplash.jpg Publications - Offerings From My Patients and Their Families test https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/70e48bde-63a7-4ad7-9971-f636618fec91/brandon-stoll-H_I6lS-6f74-unsplash.jpg Publications - Fault Lines “I had been imagining my son’s other mother—the fictional mother he could have had instead of me.” Under the Gum Tree, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/3849f25f-f6df-46b3-b5a9-cffb2f36a2ee/dan-meyers-xXbQIrWH2_A-unsplash.jpg Publications - As a pediatrician, I’m asking Utah to pass on international radioactive waste “We already have more than enough messes to clean up. But unlike my pumpkin-splattered kitchen, Utah’s environmental challenges have serious, long-lasting consequences for children’s health.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/af4b986a-98d4-4524-a54e-8069bab2a0ae/noah-buscher-x8ZStukS2PM-unsplash.jpg Publications - Offerings From My Patients and Their Families “Questions so tender that the words catch in mouths like wounded birds.” JAMA, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/bb54cdf1-184d-494c-aba0-c5ebf542d172/vladimir-fedotov-aPdUKy65qWE-unsplash.jpg Publications - Lighting the Path “For millennia, constellations have offered humans both map and mystery. Medical learning, too, is an art that holds both map and mystery.” Teaching & Learning in Medicine, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/0d98fa08-160a-4fa6-b659-d0bf54dfa176/sharon-waldron-TJN9cQ4e8Rg-unsplash.jpg Publications - Getting Dressed “I became a physician at the start of the COVID pandemic. We didn’t know yet how the virus spread, and I feared carrying it home on my scrubs.” The Sun (Readers Write), 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/d6256362-2c7e-4a9c-8ac5-20dfd008adef/jeffrey-hamilton-knB89oNur0A-unsplash.jpg Publications - Up “He reaches toward me, chubby hands smeared with cheese. I take a swig of coffee and wonder if this morning feels as strange to him as it does to me.” Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/08120050-ae3a-42b1-acb4-9d7b4bb7e13d/benjamin-voros-U-Kty6HxcQc-unsplash.jpg Publications - Moon-Belly “When my toddler looks for the moon he squirms in my grip, arcs his body toward the cold dark sky.” River Teeth, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/b2d7446e-9286-461b-ac04-00c6c6e3ec16/image_2024-02-26_201619586.png Publications - Leaf blowers are hurting Utah kids’ health “You could drive from Salt Lake City to Denver and back and still not make as much smog as you would running that gas-powered leaf blower for a single hour.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/99cbb6b6-8582-4442-90dd-9626c752e84a/clouds.jpeg Publications - Gravity “Wonder spreads his eyelids, white crescents curving above his irises, newborn moons that magnetize the tides of me.” River Teeth, 2023. Selected for “Best of Beautiful Things” re-publication, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/e3206671-859b-426a-9947-5f08c2cb72cb/Spiral-jetty-from-rozel-point.png Publications - Halophilia “What does it mean to have chosen to have a child in this time of climate crisis?” Terrain.org, 2023 - Selected for Notable Essay List in Best American Essays 2024 & Finalist in Terrain.org’s 13th Annual Contest in Nonfiction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/fc3736f8-a691-4026-8cbf-134749810b7b/Screen+Shot+2023-02-10+at+10.10.19+AM.png Publications - The health of the lake is the health of our kids “As a pediatrician and mother, a big brown rally sign summed up my biggest concern: “No to Toxic Dust Bowl.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/f78880f8-5875-43eb-b48a-b8f1de105214/anne-nygard-vc-vPgGqAr4-unsplash.jpg Publications - Supreme Court’s limits on EPA threatens Utah children’s health “It has never been more urgent and important for local governments to step up as climate leaders.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1622788657640-VC2Q1DSKM8I8Q1JO0MNR/valery-tenevoy-yZSH2rfS018-unsplash.jpg Publications - Split “COVID. COVID. COVID. This strident word that months ago did not exist and now seems to be our only word.” Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1619365752966-PO0CGM9S06ZQ15KBX5UA/mask+mandate.jpg Publications - Concerns for children’s health won’t expire with the mask mandate “As adults, we often have the power to choose the risks we take. Kids don’t have that privilege.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1619364238020-18O5JTOME99EUQ4C2YZH/butterfly.jpg Publications - Me, a Doctor? “Seemingly nothing had changed about my knowledge or skills over the past several months. If anything, I had started to forget things I’d learned earlier. But now I was a doctor?” Doximity, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/012096b4-c3c1-4ef0-a847-65db3c74062c/josue-michel-iwWmFlNmB_M-unsplash.jpg Publications - Unrooted “It’s just a dead body. Body, not person. Say it. Try to believe it.” The Examined Life Journal, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1619364088662-4FMS8R237LOHKNUAEG5Q/corcus.jpeg Publications - Where Does the Healing Happen? “Like the crocus I bent down to touch that spring day, my healing emerged from a dynamic, teeming soil of interactions.” Family Medicine, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1619363637103-S7GXRB4KSCE70JTPXGO6/Forest.jpeg Publications - Pediatricians’ Rx: Vote for Climate Leaders “When suffocating summer heat descends day after day, we grieve for our newborn patients, whose tiny bodies cannot yet regulate temperature.” -I Heart Climate Voices, 2020 (written by Hanna Saltzman, signed by 50 pediatricians nationwide) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1619362870843-3ZYXWXZ810BR1RYGKG5P/masks_tribune.jpeg Publications - Let kids be kids. With masks on. “In this new reality, masks are not what will prevent children from being children. Masks are what will permit children to be children.” Salt Lake Tribune, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1619366384703-ALTOOQT6UFSBP3RPU1HE/mask.jpeg Publications - Becoming a Physician During the Pandemic: a 55-word story Taking the Hippocratic Oath, I had imagined my future fear: Will I hurt you? But now, also: Will you hurt me? AAMC, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587062864274-UDA7UFAK5BAPQDL5U3XF/The_Power_and_Politics_of_Words.jpg Publications - Let’s Stop Telling Our Patients They’ve Failed Us “When we, as clinicians, don’t get the result we were hoping for, in most cases the problem is not that our patients have failed our treatments. The problem is that our treatments have failed our patients.” Doximity 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587233849718-VLL7JYS7273Q1ML569U3/OpEd+PandemicLesson.jpg Publications - Lesson from the pandemic is to prioritize clean air “Particularly relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution can harm the very organs that appear to play a role in how COVID-19 causes death: the lungs, the heart, the immune system.” Salt Lake Tribune, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1592692175079-G8TQLDXT6HNHVQTJR2B6/cornfield.jpg Publications - When learning medicine is not enough “I asked if he had any medical concerns. ‘Just the usual stuff, nothin’ too bad,’ he replied. He then revealed what ‘nothin’ too bad’ meant: chest pain that took his breath away. Eyes going black without warning. Pain in his fingers and toes, with two amputated digits. Clothes hanging loose; waking up drenched in sweat.” KevinMD, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587063104878-N0EXCFYBVVWK65006BRK/image-asset.jpeg Publications - Your Grocery Cart on WIC “…a corporate-influenced agricultural subsidy system has created a society in which an apple is more expensive than a bag of Cheetos. This broken system ensnares programs like WIC. People like Karen suffer.” KevinMD, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1591731514278-6UTV3JNC8PABOZR1R0KG/path+walking.jpg Publications - Medical School Curricula Should Highlight Environmental Health “Teaching environmental health as a handful of individual facts scattered among thousands of other facts misses the bigger pedagogical picture: The human body is not siloed but, instead, continually interacts with and is changed by its environments.” Academic Medicine, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587066848772-GPRI882O4EPBUTN4RKVU/toxic+air+in+slc.jpg Publications - Don’t give your children a toxic port “The last thing we need is the proposed inland port, which would add thousands of additional diesel trucks to the valley each day, further polluting our dirty air.” Salt Lake Tribune, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587075046021-7WH1VCWUIYTDPEAJWBE7/image-asset.jpeg Publications - Why I Don’t Want a “Work-Life Balance” “… this ‘work–life’ framing is about more than semantics. The words we use to frame our lives affect how we think about our lives, which then influences our productivity and happiness.” Academic Medicine, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587074918644-V5WSCTZF549H7H96EQ2F/choose+words.jpeg Publications - What’s in a Word? “In defining disease, we define health. Indirectly, our definitions affect how society views and treats people perceived as healthy or diseased.” Academic Psychiatry, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1592765399821-RAOOMYV8YBT8XKXXCYWK/bones.jpg Publications - The Parts of a Body “Disease first, person second… This way of thinking has become my new reality, and its permanence is my fear.” Iatrogenesis: Essays on Becoming a Physician, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587068289759-RVU0O3GMX16AG0VTARMJ/chip.jpg Publications - Keep CHIP extension in the limelight “Funding CHIP is essential, but cutting programs such as the ACA’s prevention and public health program is not the way to do it.” Salt Lake Tribune, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587234154726-D3MXN6BMBNKYBHRIQAD0/ThinkOutsideBox.jpg Publications - How Corporations like Coke are Greenwashing your Water “Despite their young age, Amy and her friend have picked up precisely what the bottled water industry wants: the association of bottled water with our world’s most beautiful places.” BeyondChron, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587234041891-DL5ZJVWD5TXWMK1FIYFN/Yosemite_GGNRA_water_campaign.jpg Publications - Taking a Stand Against Water Privatization in our National Parks “How can we privatize safe drinking water when people around the world—people I personally know living in places from Ghana to Peru to fracking-threatened sites here in California—don’t have enough of it in the first place?” BeyondChron, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e989834e2205f25744d108d/1587074846444-KF43AWEMAKOXBKSL11GY/Ponseti+clubfoot.jpeg Publications - Foot Focus: International Initiative to Eradicate Clubfeet Using the Ponseti Method “Most people with clubfeet live in developing countries, where employment often depends on ability to do physical labor… Most clubfoot cases in areas of poverty are simply left untreated.” Foot & Ankle International, 2009 https://www.hannasaltzman.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-23