Identifying and building on the joy in our work is a very effective wellness intervention. Reading the short pieces below may help you respond to these themes … 1. What brings you joy in your work? … What matters to you? … When are you ‘in flow’? 2. What are the pebbles in your shoe? […]
There are a wealth of resources in the Clinician Wellbeing chapter in the ACP Covid Physician’s Guide. Of pertinence for many of us right now … as the pandemic continues with little short-term end in sight … are the sections on moral injury and communication. Resource shortages are frequently at the root of this moral
When we find ourselves doing things we don’t feel right about … Read More »
Jack Geiger recently died … we watched his “Out in the Rural” during our block on structural inequities in health care.
a great physician dies … Read More »
W.H. Auden’s As I Walked Out One Evening … among other themes, Auden is speaking to delayed gratification … seemingly epidemic among physicians … ‘O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time …
on delayed gratification … Read More »
The capacity to give one’s attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough. In the first legend of the Grail, it is
Simone Weil on attentive presence … Read More »
Tolstoy in the Time of Covid … … lessons from reading The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Ilyich … lessons on covid Read More »
Our friendships have always been an important part of our professional lives, but never so much as in these current days. Two great resources that speak to this are this article from HBR and this podcast episode about Malcolm Gladwell’s core friendship (thank you to my friend Justin Moore for sharing this with me). From
I’ve found this article very helpful during these days we are in.
It’s grief we are feeling Read More »
