Joy in Family Medicine Coaching
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Shirzad Charmaine's book Positive Intelligence can give more information). We willingly experience emotions when reading books, watching movies, or riding roller coasters (even unpleasant ones)—why not allow them in real life? Naming emotions, accepting their presence, and noticing physical sensations can ease their intensity.
The Clinical Problem Solvers
MAY 27, 2020
He went to Wayne State University for my undergraduate studies thinking he would be a physical therapist, massage therapist, and dietitian (yes, all three of those). However, about one week prior to starting my massage therapy program, he had an epiphany and decided to go to medical school instead.
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Pamela Wible MD
JUNE 20, 2025
(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? Not burnout.
GeriPal
MAY 12, 2022
He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I have written about it in the book. Tom: Okay, great. Was it that thunderclap moment?
The Medical Futurist
JUNE 17, 2025
Michigan professor, Robert Ettinger proposed cryonics in 1964 in a book called The Prospect of Immortality, which argued that death could, in fact, be a reversible process. Wake me up when cryosleep ends The trouble with cryogenics and cryosleep is pure physics: our cells are filled with water.
GeriPal
MARCH 13, 2025
First we have Michael Kearney, who’s a palliative and hospice doctor at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara and author of several books. His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project. You’re a disgruntled medical student.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
– Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. All the time. ;).
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