Anthony Grandelis is a fellowship-trained OB/GYN hospitalist, medical educator, author, and person in long-term recovery from addiction. He holds an academic appointment at SUNY Downstate and a hospital affiliation with Maimonides Medical Center.
Recovery saved his life, and he believes it also made him a better doctor. The longer he has practiced medicine, the more convinced he has become that health care does not need another wellness initiative. It needs recovery. He founded Recovering Healthcare on a simple idea: The principles that help people rebuild their lives after addiction are exactly the principles that medicine is missing. Through speaking, writing, and education, he brings the principles of addiction recovery into clinical spaces, including honesty, presence, surrender, community, and humility, not as a metaphor but as a practice.
He is the author of The Recovery Prescription: What Addiction Can Teach Us About Fixing a Broken Healthcare System. He shares his work at AnthonyGrandelisMD.com, on Instagram, and on LinkedIn.
My name is Tony Grandelis. I’m an OB/GYN hospitalist, a medical educator, and a person in long-term recovery from substance use disorder. Through my brand Recovering Healthcare, I explore what the principles of addiction recovery (honesty, surrender, humility, community) can teach us about fixing a broken health care system. Recovery gave me something medicine never did: a framework for sitting with what cannot be fixed, for accepting what cannot be …
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Overtreatment at the end of life is a spiritual problem
My name is Tony Grandelis. I’m an OB/GYN hospitalist, a medical educator, and a person in long-term recovery from substance use disorder. Through my brand Recovering Healthcare, I explore what addiction recovery has taught me about fixing a broken health care system, one principle at a time. Today, I want to talk about resentments, which are, in my opinion, some of the most under-recognized causes of burnout in medicine.
In recovery, …
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Resentment in medicine is a leading cause of burnout
The longer I’ve practiced medicine, the more uncomfortable I’ve grown with the word resilience.
I’m a physician, and I am also a person in long-term recovery from addiction. Both of those identities have shaped everything about how I move through health care, and nowhere do they collide more sharply than in the culture of resilience that medicine holds so dear. We praise it like a virtue. We stitch it into wellness …
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The danger of worshipping resilience in medicine
