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Compassion in patient care

WEBI’d like to speak up for making medicine (not just internal medicine, but any health care profession) a calling to take care of people. Patients are fellow travelers, …

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A Poem in Gratitude for Health Care Workers

WEBtonight Fionnuala is your nurse. You’ll hear her voice sing-song around the ward. lifting a wing at the shore of your darkness. I heard that, in another life, she too …

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Emulation is the highest form of appreciation

WEBI write in solidarity with health care workers caring for COVID patients. Expressing gratitude and christening them as heroes have been generous ways to honor them.

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Resisting callousness through sharing and reflection

WEBHow can we can enhance compassion and resist callousness? Through sharing and reflection. I believe strongly that intentionally sharing the challenges of dealing with …

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Let Suffering Speak

WEBTaking care of COVID patients has been an awful, traumatic experience for frontline clinicians, due in part to new realization of how helpless they can be. Awareness of …

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Health Care Archives

WEBTaking care of COVID patients has been an awful, traumatic experience for frontline clinicians, due in part to new realization

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Resisting Callousness, Author at Resisting Callousness

WEBTaking care of COVID patients has been an awful, traumatic experience for frontline clinicians, due in part to new realization

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Self-Care Archives

WEB[This essay is the text of a 20-min talk I gave on this date at Medical Grand Rounds at Rochester

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Reflections on "Kindness" Poem

WEBlies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone. who journeyed through the night with plans. and the simple breath …

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burn-out Archives

WEBTo make health care more about patient care than patient management, we need Compassion. Read More

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antisocial personality disorder Archives

WEBThis summer I read a helpful book, The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout. It describes a certain type of “difficult” patient, colleague or public figure.

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Letter to graduating residents, 2020

WEBJune 15, 2020 Good morning, newly certifiable internists: I thoroughly enjoyed being in the audience at your graduation ceremony. Your stories of accomplishment remind me that …

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Wahl Memorial Lecture, 11/2/2023

WEB[This essay is the text of a 20-min talk I gave on this date at Medical Grand Rounds at Rochester (NY) General Hospital. The talk was one of three presented as …

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“Death destroys a man; the idea of Death saves him.”

WEBCOVID-19 reminds us that our bodies are in perpetual competition with the environment: from birth to death, only a marvelous balance of processes allows us to …

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