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....

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....

Many years ago, a wise therapist gave me some excellent guidance in how to stay sane while parenting a teenager. “Set up a box of...

I’ll never forget the PowerPoint lecture in medical school that taught us about a powerful medicine seemingly able to prevent and treat...