Why bother prescribing…

Perusing the paper this morning brings me to a New York Times article: Good news: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say. In short, my response is, I am not surprised since I spoke about this when I started the blog. This one is likely to be a tad preachy so hang …

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Stop calling it burn out…

I agree it is more of a moral injury: Moral injury refers to an injury to an individual's moral conscience resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression which produces profound emotional shame. The concept of moral injury emphasizes the psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of trauma. I stumbled across this video from Dr. Z who does a video podcast that …

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So, flight crews are now experts in psych, ID, and Derm…

First off, I get it someone can bring any bug onto an airplane; however, I am curious at what level this kind of crap stops? Two years ago, while I was in graduate school, I flew with my husband to attend a weeklong skill pass off in Boston (for school). On the return trip, I …

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