by Mary Brandt, MD“She’s really impossible… one of the grumpiest people I’ve ever met. We’ve had nurses come back from escorting patients to her almost in tears… if I worked with her, I...
by Mary Brandt, MD It’s not often that a talk completely changes the way I think about something. I’ve been thinking and speaking about compassion fatigue for many years. I recently had the priv...
By: Christina Cellini, MD, FACS, FASCRSIt’s easy for us to get caught up in the day-to-day caring of others – whether patients or family – that we forget to take care of ourselves! I recently ex...
by Amalia Cochran, MDThe following is an excerpt from an email I recently received from a mentee: “I love, love, love surgery, but even as someone who has thrived in this environment, I now acknowle...
by: Carol EH Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBAWhen I finished surgical residency and took my first job as an Assistant Professor, I emerged from a fog of chronic sleep deprivation and became conscious, as if...
by: Susan Kaiser, MD, PhD, FACSAWS Foundation AwardsMonday, October 7, 2013Washington DCDr. Susan Pories & Dr. Joyce MajureThe Nina Starr Braunwald Award (given first to Claude Organ MD in 1993), ...
By: Bharti Jasra, MDPeople like me are more interested in talking about healthy living than actually living it, since our lifestyles are often the direct opposite of healthy. This article is based on ...
by Sophia K. McKinley Medical school presents multiple threats to wellness: USMLE exams, demanding rotation schedules, and weeks of residency interview travel all pose challenges to healthy...
by: Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, MS, MD In medical school, I remember the first week of orientation they had a lecture on wellness and all the pieces of the theoretical "wellness pie" that we should ...
by Mary Brandt, MDDear Dr. Brandt, I enjoy your blog very much. As a second year medical student, I know that my peers and I all struggle with what we view as ‘failure’ at some point or anot...
