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Your Least Favorite Emotion, and What to Do with It.

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

The Nagoski sisters in their book on burnout highlighted 7 things shown to close the cycle and signal your brain and threat detection system you are safe: Physical exercise. And remember from last week's blog : Madeleine L'Engle's quote "Joy is not the same thing as pleasure. Focused breathing exercises. Positive social interactions.

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2020 - 2021 Residency Season (Diary Posts)

Aspiring Minority Doctor

Not sure if it will help anyone, and I made sure to retract program names, so just posting on the blog for my memories. I am 11 hours into my shift and between physical and telemedicine visits, I have seen a total of 46 patients today AND finished all my notes! Right now, I am at work and just got a break. It all adds up.

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

Pamela Wible MD

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. SPONSOR: .

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. ” I asked the student, “Did you find legs on your physical exam?”

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. Try to really understand what’s happening. .”

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. Julien: I want aggressive physical therapy and occupational therapy for every single one of our patients all the time, multiple times a day.