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Preparing for a good end of life The best way to achieve a peaceful death is by planning ahead and enlisting the help of loved ones. When Art Talks: Expressions of Clinician Well-Being This exhibition, organized by the National Academy of Medicine's Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, showcases art created by clinicians, students, patients and loved ones, and represents their views clinician burnout and well-being.
Contributor: Jennifer ChangFebruary 2, 2019Topics: Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Impaired Physician / ResilienceKeywords: burnout / well-being Active duty more likely to seek out MH care than veterans A stigma shift? The messaging and the access may be changing the habits of current and future generations of military personnel, but there is still a gap in how veterans seek out MH care.
Contributor: Francesca CiminoJanuary 29, 2019Topics: Illness & Disability / Mental HealthKeywords: depression / mental health / military / PTSD / veterans
Helping patients face death, she fought to live A palliative care doctor, faced with extensive metastatic cancer, grappled with what she recommended for patients and what she wanted for herself - which was treatment and cure, at all cost. How long have I got left? A young neurosurgeon describes his struggle with living and dying, in the framework of incurable cancer.
Contributor: Francesca CiminoNovember 28, 2018Topics: Addiction / Burnout / PerspectiveKeywords: addiction / alcohol / bias / genetic
The murderer in the mirror (2 min read) A surgeon's reflection on the death of his patient.
Clinical care for Obesity and Diet Related illnesses needs more attention to Societal Determinants of Health Article from NEJM website about how despite rates of obesity starting to level off overall, the lowest income and minority populations continue to show a sharp increase. A focus on those factors as contributory needs to be a part of the discussion. My Human Doctor Medical school teaches us to examine, to research, to treat. We don’t learn to err and recover.