Compassion Fatigue

Just looking at the broad stroke numbers of what it was like for me starting out as a family doctor in the 1990s compared with today—it makes no financial sense for a new MD to pick family medicine.

As a medical student, I always admired my classmates’ ability to create clinical vignettes that succinctly captured the essence of a patient’s condition. 

Dr. Natalya E. O’Neill, a rural family medicine resident, reflects on the lessons learned from the loss of a patient.

Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on how strange it is to refer to yourself as a doctor in the past tense upon retirement.

There are steps we must take, and assumptions we must reset, to reclaim our most precious resource: Time

Dr. Adam Chen has a little chat with the Ghost of New Year Yet to Come and discovers what 2024 has in store.

While there is a long history of doctor-poets—one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician—few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.

If you know the story of knights seeking the grail, you'll know the lesson Percival learns the hard way by failing to ask awkward questions.