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Well-being Investment: Nutrition

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

There are plenty of physicians I know who under-fuel - maybe I’ll offer a follow up blog down the road on that topic. Emergency Backup : Keep things on hand (backpack, hospital locker, office/station at clinic) so when your best laid plans get waylaid you can still support your choices easily. Closely related is #20.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention. A light bulb went on for me as I had the exact same thought about 6 years ago when I began to think about leaving my job in an office owned by a hospital system. Martin says “There has to be a different way of doing things.”

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Last week the anti-burnout buzz accelerated when ZDogg quoted my 2015 blog— Burnout is BS —in his viral video “It’s not burnout, it’s moral injury” echoing my advice that we stop saying the victim-blaming term. Now we’re getting somewhere. But is it really moral injury? I’m a systems thinker, a scientist, a doctor.

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Empowering Women Physicians 2023 Bora Bora Retreat Recap and Reflections

Aspiring Minority Doctor

Following this, we had a bit of downtime in the afternoon, so I recorded a very choppy YouTube video as I was walking back to my room that looks choppy, but I may go ahead and post it anyway and just direct to this blog post which ties up everything I really want to say anyway. Then I got ready for our 5pm sunset cruise.

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One I prepared earlier

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I've been neglecting this blog. But I thought about my friends and colleagues, my daily contacts and the faceless names on the hospital letters, and I thought about the pain and hurt in each of their hearts. I write a column in a medical newspaper every couple of months, and that absorbs my writing energy.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Some family doctors work in a residency training program where they may see patients in the hospital, out of the hospital, and deliver babies. I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics.