I had forgotten how old Europe is, like hundreds of years older than the US. One church we visited, the Duomo di Siena, took 300 years...

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...

I am not good at resting. I recently said to my husband as he sat on the couch watching one of his favorite TV series, “I need to learn...

Many years before I studied to become a physician, giving thanks for the blessings in my life was the first part of my morning prayers.  ...

Last year I started attending monthly lectures put on by the Nevada Physician Wellness Coalition (NPWC), an organization in line with my...

It's been a long time since I've written, too long for sure, but a lot has happened in my personal and professional life in the last...

I recently picked up a dusty book from the overflowing self-help shelf on my bookcase: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown. I’d had...

When I first stepped onto a yoga mat in my late twenties, I had no idea yoga entailed so much more than just moving my body into more and...

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

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...

The term moral injury popped into the conversation about physician burnout back in 2018, when an article was published entitled...

On the way home from skiing last weekend my husband and I were humming along to the familiar 1968 Moody Blues song, “Ride…Ride my…blah...

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

In addition to emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, not having a sense of personal accomplishment is the third symptom of burnout....

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

The meaning of depersonalization has always alluded me. How can one not feel like a person? I finally understood it when I experienced...

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...

I recently had an interaction with a patient that had suffered a stroke and it got me thinking about emotions. I was asking this patient...

This was a vivid dream I had in August of 2020, after a 10-hour day of work, on day 4 of a 12-day stretch at the rehabilitation hospital....