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Compassion Fatigue

  • I am a doctor

    For Doctors’ Day—May 1—Dr. Alykhan Abdulla shares his latest poem on identity and the everyday reality of the profession.
    Middle aged doctor standing in front of instruments in clinic room

  • That’s how the light gets in

    In this case report from 20 years ago, career palliative care physician Dr. Romayne Gallagher looks back at how much we've learned about helping patients with existential suffering.
    Dr. Romayne Gallagher smiling for a photo

  • The F-word

    A medical reporter confronts fatigue—and calls on physicians to share how they help patients (and themselves) manage it.
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  • Go hack yourself

    More unsolicited early career advice: gigs and hustles for the burgeoning doctor.
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  • Docs and socks, not always crazy

    Dr. Ginevra Mills thinks back to a case where she wondered: did her preceptor not know that Crazy Socks 4 Docs is about breaking down the stigma around mental health in physicians?
    Crazy sock

  • Getting to the heart of a geriatric day hospital

    As part of a series of first-person true stories written by physicians, Dr. Anne Monahan reflects on the healing effects of music and seeing the whole person.
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  • Care deferred is care repressed

    In another poem, Dr. Alykhan Abdulla expresses the pain practicing in a system where massive wait-times have become the norm.
    Middle aged doctor standing in front of instruments in clinic room

  • Addicted to medicine

    Driven by perfectionism and external reinforcement, some doctors become trapped in workaholism.
    A woman holding an comically enormous syringe full of green liquid
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