Mom enough. Doctor enough. We are enough.
I finally made it back to the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress last month. It’s a great conference with literally thousands of surgeons, but it’s the first time I’ve been in four years because I’ve been waiting for it to be in my favorite city in the US–Boston. I’ve been three other times as an… Read the Post »
I mean, really, who the hell do you think you are? That’s about as nice as I can put my thoughts about the National Rifle Association since their tweet in response to the ACP’s latest opinion on gun violence. It has taken me this long to write it out because every time I think about, my… Read the Post »
My therapist helped me realize something seemingly profound during a recent session. This burnout thing–it’s not my first rodeo, but it’s been a looooonng time. I wasn’t even 4 years old when I told my parents I wanted to do real gymnastics after watching the 1988 Summer Olympics. I had been doing some developmental gymnastics for a while,… Read the Post »
There are a lot of things happening in the current healthcare environment that make medicine a tough field for anyone. It truly is no wonder that physician burnout is occurring in epidemic proportions and that suicide rates are skyrocketing as well. We are frustrated. We are overworked. And we have less and less people that value… Read the Post »