By last call I don’t mean the last call for alcohol before a bar closes; those nights are long behind me fortunately, way back to my...

When I tell people I’m working as a locum tenens, most look at me with confusion, like I am speaking a foreign language.  Which I am, as...

“Curiosity is the genesis of empathy,” were the astute words in my weekly email from writer Jeannine Ouellette. I'm taking a course from...

I am part of a writer’s group and together we are doing a 12-week course on how to write a lyrical essay. The first week’s assignment is...

Yesterday I was invited to give a talk to a group of about fifty freshmen undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). These...

I was not aware during my medical training how fearful patients and medical professionals are about the one thing that we all will...

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...

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

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

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...

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

The hoo hoodoo hoooo hoo woke me up in the early morning hours. It was just after 4 am. My alarm would go off soon anyway, so I dragged...