Candace Good is a psychiatrist who blogs at How to Shrink a Shrink.

The crisis after COVID-19: Why doctors won’t get treatment

Conditions
April 10, 2020

I’ve been telecommuting for two weeks, and I already feel like Bill Murray’s character in the film Groundhog Day. A college friend of mine had a term for this feeling—déjà movie. I ease into my day with the repetitive normalcy of feeding the dog and sitting with my coffee while I watch the news.

A lead story included pictures taken by Dr. Colleen Smith, a young doctor at Elmhurst Hospital in …

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The crisis after COVID-19: Why doctors won’t get treatment

3 tips for physicians to become better leaders

Physician
December 9, 2019

My 20-year medical school reunion was a time to reflect: Have we aged more gracefully than medicine? The Class of 1999 carried books and wore pagers while scrambling to gather paper charts for rounds. Residency did not prepare us for the explosion of managed care, EHRs, health systems, and allied health providers. What do I wish I knew then? The hardest part of medicine isn’t becoming …

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3 tips for physicians to become better leaders