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Compassion Fatigue

  • Dolce far niente

    Medicine is a draining job. On holiday, the author embraced an Italian phrase and spent days doing nothing and discovering the beauty and wonder in the simplicity of idle moments.
    A man

  • 'It happens frequently': What you need to know about the abuse of pharmacists by patients

    In a live poll at the OPA RxTalks conference, 95% of pharmacists in the audience said they had experienced or witnessed mistreatment by a patient. The problem goes beyond the people in that room and it's time to address it.
    Angry male patient with female healthcare worker.

  • Quit

    Physicians need to learn to balance their grit and quit ratio, kind of like the gas and the brake pedal.

  • Dr. I.M. Canuck—the perfect Canadian MD?

    Dr. Ted Jablonski constructs a 'super' Canadian doctors from the skills each province exemplifies most strongly.
    Dr. Ted Jablonski

  • Family medicine is a failing business model

    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.
    Middle aged doctor standing in front of instruments in clinic room

  • Summarize and the livin' is easy

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

  • I wish I had known

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

  • The meeting

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