“Medicine has become something of a stealth family-friendly profession”
Claire Cain Miller, who writes some great stuff about work and family for the New York Times, has a piece about mothers and medical practice: Medicine has become
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Skip to contentClaire Cain Miller, who writes some great stuff about work and family for the New York Times, has a piece about mothers and medical practice: Medicine has become
The Washington Post has an article on two new studies looking at physician burnout. One looks at burnout among young doctors, while the other underscores how challenging it’s
The Center for Medical Simulation at Harvard discusses REST in the latest episode of their podcast. It’s a great conversation: in addition to providing a good overview of
A group of Canadian and American researchers have been examining children with concussions, and their impact that exercise has on their recovery after injury. They publish their findings
Lisa Merlo, writing in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association: At the heart of excellent medical treatment is the physician who provides competent,
In the Martin Scorcese movie Goodfellas, Henry Hill explains how people interact with the big Mafia boss, Paul Cicero. He got all his calls second hand. Then you’d
Susan Fitzpatrick, the president of the McDonnell Foundation, has an opinion piece in The Scientist about the importance of unstructured, social time in doing good science. There was
"Rest, with nothing else, results in rust," Wilder Penfield wrote in his great essay The Second Career: "It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain." The essay was an argument against
From William Osler’s A Way of Life: An Address to Yale Students, Sunday evening, April 20th, 1913: Control of the mind as a working machine, the adaptation in it
I'm constantly amazed at how, in the past, the idea that four or five hours or really focused work was a solid day for the thinker or artist was