At the end of every new patient evaluation and admission to the rehabilitation hospital I have to bring up the sensitive subject of Code...

Last week I said to my colleague, “It feels like it’s a full moon,” and she quickly agreed. It was a day full of chaos and emergencies,...

Nothing in medical training really prepares you for the death of your first patient, the first time you officially pronounce a patient...

I saw my senior resident storming down the hospital corridor towards me. As soon as she was several feet away, she yelled out “You killed...

I was reminded that my response to the stressors at work during the COVID-19 pandemic are to be expected. It’s normal to feel stress...

By the time the COVID-19 surge in our community did arrive last fall, I was ready. In the months prior I had recognized that I was...

I suddenly had the insight that what I was experiencing was physician burnout, something I had not yet experienced so acutely on the job...

Last year when the SARS-CoV2 was just starting to circulate in the US (or, more accurately, the awareness of its presence was becoming more

It is true that this is the most challenging time I have had thus far in my career as a physician. And it’s not just the long hours...