Anoop Kumar, MD

Anoop Kumar is an emergency physician.

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Physician burnout challenges our assumptions

Anoop Kumar, MD

October 1, 2016Oct 1, 2016

I probably set a record for the earliest a physician ever burned out: less than a year after earning my MD. Some may not call it burnout; it could just as well be called “internship." I call it burnout because…

I probably set a record for the earliest a physician ever burned out: less than a year after earning my MD. Some may not call it burnout; it could just as well be called “internship.” I call it burnout because beyond the exhaustion and can’t-take-it-anymore, there was a gnawing sense that something fundamental was missing — something that no amount of time would fix.

Over the next year or so, the …

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The dreadful cost of denying how you really feel

Anoop Kumar, MD

March 31, 2014Mar 31, 201412

I was recently sent a link to this article entitled “Smile! You’ve Got Cancer” written by Barbara Ehrenreich. I encourage everyone to read it. The article lives up to its striking title and more. And I couldn’t help but respond with my perspective. So that you know where I’m coming from, my most personal encounter with cancer is that my grandmother died from cancer. I also treat people with acute …

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Leadership and management define the core of emergency medicine

Anoop Kumar, MD

September 30, 2013Sep 30, 20133

History’s great achievers -- a Napoléon, a da Vinci, a Mozart -- have always managed themselves. That, in large measure, is what makes them great achievers. These are the words of Peter F. Drucker, father of modern management theory. They…

History’s great achievers — a Napoléon, a da Vinci, a Mozart — have always managed themselves. That, in large measure, is what makes them great achievers.

These are the words of Peter F. Drucker, father of modern management theory. They are especially relevant to emergency medicine today. The founders of our specialty and the wave of emergency physicians that followed them have carved us a unique position in the house of …