It's been a long time since I've written, too long for sure, but a lot has happened in my personal and professional life in the last...

DETECTED. SARS-CoV-2. There were the words on the lab results page I had seen so many times at the hospital where I worked. I never...

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

Several years ago, I had the most challenging interaction I have ever had with a patient’s family member, and even today, the memory of...

This past weekend I traveled via plane for the first time in two years, since before COVID-19 transformed my way of life and leisure. I...