What Medical Training Conditioned You to Ignore About Yourself
You learned a lot of medicine in training. You also learned a lot of things that were never on the syllabus. Medical…
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Physician Signature Strengths: The Burnout Intervention You Weren’t Trained In
When I started medical school, the curriculum had just shifted to small-group case discussion. Six to ten students sat…
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Becoming a New Attending Physician Wasn’t Easier. It Was Different.
The first morning I signed out a patient as the attending, nobody behind me was going to catch what I missed. The pay…
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Before Burnout Arrives: What to Build in Your First Year of Residency
I showed up to my first overnight call in a tie, a dress shirt, and khakis. The chief resident took one look at me and…
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The Physical Cost of Physician Burnout: What Six Weeks With Arena Labs Showed Me
I have been teaching physicians to audit their Energy Accounts for two years. Then I spent six weeks wearing a sensor…
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The Three Energy Accounts Every Physician Drains
I trained before resident work-hour restrictions. During one stretch of residency, my car broke down. I dropped it at…
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Finding Joy: The Power of Your “Third Thing
Spring has arrived in the Midwest, and recently I’ve spent a good chunk of my Saturday blowing leaves, trimming back…
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The Physician Development Ladder: Preparing Doctors for a Changing World
Author’s Note: As a pediatric cardiologist, a medical educator, and a coach, I’ve sat on every side of the table. I’ve…
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