I will never forget the first medication I ordered as newly practicing physician. It was my first internal medicine rotation of...

The other day one of my physician colleagues shared a story with me about some seemingly helpful advice he was given during the first...

To be perfect means to be “excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement.” Perfectionism is multi-dimensional and can...

The term moral injury popped into the conversation about physician burnout back in 2018, when an article was published entitled...

On the way home from skiing last weekend my husband and I were humming along to the familiar 1968 Moody Blues song, “Ride…Ride my…blah...

In 2001, Drs Friedman and Forster designed an experiment where two sets of college students were tasked to complete a computer maze,...

As part of my research on physician burnout, I have been reading books by other physicians who suggest multiple different strategies for...

Yesterday at work, on Christmas Day, one of my patient’s care givers said to me, “Why are you here on Christmas? Did you get the short...

In addition to emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, not having a sense of personal accomplishment is the third symptom of burnout....

What type of person comes to mind when you think of the characteristic of resilience, the ability to continuously bounce back from...

The meaning of depersonalization has always alluded me. How can one not feel like a person? I finally understood it when I experienced...

When I realized last year I was feeling burned out in my job as a physician, I dove into learning as much as I could about the symptoms...

I recently had an interaction with a patient that had suffered a stroke and it got me thinking about emotions. I was asking this patient...

This was a vivid dream I had in August of 2020, after a 10-hour day of work, on day 4 of a 12-day stretch at the rehabilitation hospital....

That was the last line of a frustrated email from a physician in our medical group. She was responding to yet another notification from...

When I admit a patient to the acute rehabilitation hospital, after asking them about the history of their stroke or brain injury,...

The sense of dread in the air inside the hospital last week was paired with the thick smoke and ashes falling from the multiple fires in...

One of my readers made a suggestion in response to my recent post Assembly Line Medicine, where I described the experience of seeing my...

Last week I had my physician evaluation, the first one since starting my current position at my hospital five years ago. I sat across...

Many years ago, a wise therapist gave me some excellent guidance in how to stay sane while parenting a teenager. “Set up a box of...