Lately I’ve started noticing a common theme- in public and private conversations, in various parts of the internet, the gathering of momentum. In November of this year I attended the Millin Meet...
By Shree Agrawal Saying yes is complicated, powerful, and full of potential. Celebrities like Shonda Rhimes, known for her Thursday night television series and recent book, Year of Yes, and Ryan S...
By AJ Copeland My Chair asks me to host the Department holiday party at my house. An office nurse hits me up to purchase giftwrapping for her son’s fundraiser. My mother wants to come along whe...
By Sarah B. Bryczkowski Gratitude - To be grateful, give thanks, show appreciation. For those of you who don't know, I am forever optimistic. I always hope for the best. Even when the fecal mat...
By Lauren B. Nosanov Steeling myself for an incoming 5 year-old MVC victim with reportedly fixed and dilated pupils per the EMS report, I am overwhelmed with gratitude that my own children are safe...
By: Beth Shaughnessy It can be a difficult task to think about gratitude because we may become a little hardened and insensitive in light of the demands on our time. I can't help but smirk when I...
I am tired today. It was a call night, after a full day of operating. The pages came in steadily. I don’t mind the ones that have to do with patient care. Most are just from people trying to do t...
By: Janet Bickel “We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”—Mary Catherine Bateson “Success comes to people who know themselves, learn how to manage and develop themselv...
by: Marie-Christine Wright, JD “I’m discovering that women can have it all, just not all at the same time.” If we can’t have it all at the same time, is there always room for wellness, and...
by: Betsy Tuttle-Newhall, MD, FACS When one mentions the word “meditation”, images of saffron robed monks and lotus flowers come to mind for many; however, meditation is simply the act of quietin...
