Discussions

Work-life balance, multitasking and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Buddhist Viking

Longevity in medicine necessitates some degree of desensitization. This is part of how we grow. It’s essential. This evolution, however, can come with a cost. With our competence comes the insidious erosion of empathy that creeps in, hand-in-hand with our competence, quietly, relentlessly, and destructively.
Pharmacy asymptomatic testing: What's the true value?
COVID-19 has offered us an unexpected opportunity to help more people quit smoking
Sick benefits for physicians in time of COVID-19
Women and children first
Pandemic Pain: Ruling out Covid as cause of headaches
Residency in the time of the pandemic

As the pandemic wore on, it became increasingly clear that our normal, pre-pandemic lives were bound for the past tense. As a resident in family medicine, I wondered what this might mean for our patient relationships. Would we develop the same rapport, or be able to guide our patients through maintaining health and treating illness as closely and meaningfully as before?

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