Physicians know how to persevere. We are committed and hardworking. We went through many years of advanced schooling and training, which would not have been possible without perseverance. We are used to enduring physical, mental, and even spiritual hardship.

But this admirable trait can lead to trouble. Sometimes we don’t know when to quit.

https://www.medicalmindsconsulting.com/journal/paging-dr-quitter

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This looks like a great film about subjects we don’t talk about enough: how mistakes affect doctors and the difficulties female physicians face. Looking forward to it!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lipiroy/2024/06/26/a-mistake-tribeca-film-probes-a-female-surgeons-saga-of-grief-politics-sexism-and-strength/

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Don’t let the title throw you off.

This beautiful piece is about a doctor witnessing, allowing himself to feel, and letting it show.

We need to normalize this is medicine.

https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/06/when-a-doctors-heart-falls-witnessing-raw-emotion-in-medicine.html

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Where are you making time for yourself this summer?

One year I didn’t take any time off over the summer months. It did not go well for me. Or anyone around me. I never did that again!

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If you are constantly looking for the next thing…
To learn
To do
To talk about

Then you are missing this moment.

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I’m glad that doctors are calling out toxic work environments. And then resigning from them. Time to take our power back.

https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/02/doctors-speak-out-against-toxic-work-conditions.html

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One of the many reasons I love travel is it always helps me put things into perspective. Something about seeing the houses get smaller and smaller after take-off and the vistas along the way flip a switch in my mind from my tiny personal problems to those of the world.

What do you do to gain perspective?

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Bad dentist appointment today. Not like, I'm gunna complain to the manager, but the young guy who was training by doing my cleaning tore my gums up.

I thought it was weird that he just started directly into cleaning without removing the ortho ties and wire.

When he hit me pretty hard with the polisher, it got my lip at the same time as my gums, where the lip was the outstanding pain so I said something. He said "oh, let's get you some lip balm."

Then my dentist came in when he was finishing up and she said, "oh, you were supposed to remove her bands and the wire first." I knew I hadn't gone crazy.

Then she politely scolded him that he should have had someone in the room with him who had more training.

And then she says, "oh, did you injure your gums recently?" I crinkled my nose and gently pointed (since there were tools in my mouth). This poor guy. You could hear the red on his face. The dentist asked him to stay in the room and observe, but at a certain point he just *Homer Simpson'd into the bushes.

I felt bad for this poor kid, and anyone else would have just asked him to stop. I think that means I overcame my dental fears? Or I'm just a people pleaser who developed a high tolerance for pain.

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There is a very simple way to experience more compassion in healthcare and society–remember what was natural to you as a child.

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This one made me angry.

Let’s stop selectively blaming physicians for what has become a societal problem.

Medical students are by and large compassionate idealists.

Then they go through medical training, arrive at their jobs out of training, and are met with corporate indifference by employers, inadequate staff to function optimally, and often entitlement and anger by many patients.

https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/11/the-erosion-of-compassion-in-medicine.html

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