My Dearest Love, Fiancé, Partner, and Best Friend,
I want you to know just how much I love you. I genuinely love you with every ounce of my body and soul. 🙂
But I worry about you. You’ve been beaten down.
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Blog Archives
The weird reason why “wellness programs” won’t work →
A few months ago, I got this invitation from the director of graduate medical education:
We have 115 residents and no meaningful wellness program to speak of. My goal is to create not only a resident but also a faculty wellness program. To help jumpstart the endeavor,
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Ideal residency has therapy dogs, scribes & time for lunch →
I’m a fan of putting the end-user in charge. It’s an winning strategy all around. As an entrepreneur and community organizer at heart, I love bringing people together to create innovative solutions for their problems. Download MP3 and/or listen here to how it’s done (& how you can use this in your own life):
When I left assembly-line medicine in 2005,
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Join the 17 in 2017 Project →
I’m adopting 17 people in 2017. Revolutionary people in medicine. People who want to heal the world and make a big difference with a project, a dream, an idea. Are you one of the 17?
I’m open to anyone who feels called to this project (special preference given to premed &
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Goat yoga for blood pressure? Doctors say yes. →
What if you could get off your blood pressure meds with a daily dose of goat yoga? New study released today confirms you just may be able to do that. Follow me on an investigation of the health benefits of this trendy exercise.
To study the effects of goat yoga on the human cardiovascular system,
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An ingrown toenail is not a lung transplant (how primary care is being held hostage to tertiary care) →
Here’s a quick review of health care delivery basics:
Primary care – Stuff you can get handled with your primary care doctor in your neighborhood. Example: ingrown toenail.
Secondary care – Stuff your primary care doctor refers to a secondary specialist down the road.
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Medicine’s dirty secret—an interview with Dr. Wible →
Medicine’s dirty secret. Dr. Pamela Wible interviewed by Dr. LaKeisha W. McMillan. Fully transcribed below. Listen on iTunes or download MP3 here. Episode 68: “Shhh . . they want us to keep it a secret” with Dr. Pamela Wible. (Note: Interview with Dr. Wible starts at 5:30)
LM: I talked about us stepping outside of the box here at House Calls with Dr.
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Emmy award winning filmmaker takes on med student suicide (view movie trailer) →
ABOUT THE PROJECT: Two-time Emmy award winning filmmaker, Robyn Symon, takes on the physician suicide crisis that has claimed the lives of countless medical students, doctors, and patients.
LOGLINE: Medical students and families of physicians touched by suicide come out of the shadows to expose the truth about a sick healthcare system that not only risks patients’ lives,
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What do modern day shamans do? →
Dear Dr. Wible,
I wanted to pose a couple questions to you after reflecting on your TED talk and a couple of your stories. Also I wanted to say that I truly appreciate the awareness you’re bringing to the dysfunction in medical training,
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Doctor’s infertility cured by quitting assembly-line medicine, opening her dream clinic →
Today I checked up on a physician friend who just launched her solo family medicine clinic a few weeks ago. She writes:
It’s a slow start but it’s picking up. As more and more people get to know me it’s growing . . . like planting a garden for the first time .
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Burnout Is Bullshit →
Please stop using the word burnout. You are not burned out. You’ve been abused. Let’s get the diagnosis right.
We enter medicine as inspired, intelligent, compassionate humanitarians. Soon we’re cynical and exhausted. How did all these totally amazing and high-functioning people get so f@*d up so fast?
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