About
José Gude, MD, MBI
Physician, novelist, musician, and software developer based in Boise, Idaho. Hospitalist at the Boise VAMC and telehospitalist with Providence. Builder of clinical tools. Writer of fiction about consciousness, frequency, love, and freedom.
I trained in internal medicine and have spent the last decade as a hospitalist — the kind of physician who carries the weight of a patient's whole admission from the moment they arrive to the moment the system is willing to let them leave. It is the most demanding work I have ever done. It is also, quietly, the most contemplative.
The books came out of that contemplation. Twenty years of standing at bedsides and watching patients improve by amounts no medication could fully explain. Twenty years of suspecting that the body was an instrument, not a generator. Twenty years of declining to say so out loud, because the language for it did not yet exist in the literature I had been trained on.
Anima is the first book that let me try. Numen is the book where the trying became a story. Limen is the field guide — the actual research and reference list under the fiction, for readers who finished the novels and wanted to see where the architecture came from. Fragile Light is something else, a stand-alone novel that arrived between drafts of Numen and refused to wait.
By day I am still a hospitalist. I also build AdmitNote — a clinical documentation tool for physicians who got tired of spending more time charting than thinking. The two practices feed each other. The novels are written between shifts, in the early mornings and on the days off, on a laptop that has been to three hospitals and one mountain cabin.
I read widely. I am especially indebted to the Spanish mystics, the cymatic researchers, the consciousness philosophers, and the line of hospitalists and family physicians who have spent careers refusing to pretend that the visit was over when the chart said it was.
If something in the books spoke to you, I'd like to hear about it. The address below is the right place.
Contact
Email: contact@josegudemd.com
Clinical tool: admitnote.com
GitHub: github.com/gude2000