The Opposite of Paranoia Has a Name (And I Think You Need It)
Living in this egocentric world, coupled with our evolutionarily preserved negativity bias, means we are always going to think that everybody's out to get us…
How I Blew Up My Project Management System (And How the Einstein Principle Is Getting Me Closer to Promotion)
The same altruism that draws us into medicine, paired with the people-pleasing we've mistaken for what made us successful in it, means we accumulate academic flotsam and jetsam that no promotion committee will ever ask about.
The Physician Scarcity Mindset: What The Psychology of Money Gets Right About “Enough”
I've spent my adult life with a genuinely serious scarcity mentality about money…
The Inbox That’s Never Empty: Making Peace With Portal Messages
This is not a productivity problem we can solve by simply "getting better" at typing fast…
The Economy You're Investing In (But Don't Even Realize It)
“The everyday interactions that should be simple but often turn into fraught ordeals…”
How to Be Burned Out When Everyone Else Is Getting a Fresh Start
Anticipating a hard season is not the same as failing to be grateful for your job…
I Thought I Was Getting Better…And Then I Wasn't
I let myself get pulled back into the reactive current…
I Needed To Be Reminded: I Was Never Promised “Easy”
Nothing wrong is necessarily happening when bad things happen…
What Happens When an Expert in Burnout is…Burnt Out?
The more I struggled, the stronger the downward pull became…
Redefining Medical Professionalism: Why the Hidden Curriculum Is Burning Physicians Out
The old professionalism wasn't just a philosophy; it was a staffing model.
I Became a Doctor to Help People: What If I Don’t Know How Anymore?
Identity fracture describes a state in which the parts of a person's internal sense of self become disconnected…
The Best Mind-Body Practice Is Other People
Conferences are their own special kind of exhausting…
It's That Time of Year Again (And This Year, I Have Backup)
Every spring, my calendar fills with a particular kind of dread: the yearly evaluation….