Women Clinicians: Less Efficient?
Last week, while on vacation, my husband and I were swimming in a salt-water inlet when a rainstorm hit. (Actually, I was indulging in my favorite hobby and floating prone, chin resting on my forearm, on a lime green inner tube.) Fortunately, there was no lightning,...
A Superhero’s Task: Normalizing Work-Life Balance for Physicians
A month or so ago, I came across a social media post about a new children’s book. My children are young adults, not yet parents—so why did I immediately order the book and eagerly await its arrival? And when I had the slim paperback in my hands, why I place it on the...The Power of Words: Avoiding the Trap of the Physician Identity
I love the idea of turning a negative approach to improvement in health care—looking for problems—on its head. Appreciative inquiry, a process of focusing on a group’s inherent strengths and fostering positive interactions among group members, is one way of...The Healing Power of Just Culture for Patients and Those Who Care for them
When I was in residency training, I felt struggled with a conflict between my perception of reality and a seemingly widespread fallacy. As a human being, and especially as a human new at the tasks I was undertaking, I knew I was imperfect, yet the clinical world...