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With Omicron raging through the population, we need to stay on top of—and properly fund—the science behind long-COVID, set to be a post-pandemic pandemic of its own.

I didn’t learn about hormone therapy in medical school or residency. And suddenly I had a patient before me who needed me to act as her endocrinologist because otherwise she’d need to wait another year.

As the pandemic drags on into its third (!!!) year, here are a few lessons learned that have helped me to not just cope, but thrive

Medicine needs three things to survive, argues Dr. Shawn Whatley: civility, logic and free speech.

The page opened up and the first thing I saw was “expired”! I immediately checked my pulse. Once I recovered from the shock of this misleading and preposterous clinical opinion, I realized what this was.

Self-care has always been a necessity and not a choice. In the past when I failed to meet that necessity for myself, the consequences manifested as extreme stress, doubt, burnout, and an overwhelming desire to quit.

My daughter had spent some time in Central America. The day she came home, she wasn’t her usual buoyant self. “I’m not hungry," she said, "and I have a sore tummy.” I learned that no parent should be in the position of being father and doctor to his adolescent child.

This is the year you're going to get the paperwork under control. All it takes is a plan and some discipline.