As physicians, most of us do not need another Zoom webinar on burnout; we need open space.
Even at the earliest stages of training, we are made to feel that we cannot take a break. In a med school course I teach, I assigned a renewal activity with a short reflection. Some protested, but most expressed gratitude for an assigned pause.
Many admitted how afraid they felt to step away, to take …
The pause medicine never taught us to take
Despite four years of medical school, three years of residency, and over a decade in practice, I was never taught the profound connection between high childhood stress and increased risk of chronic disease.
It was at a community event sponsored by our local school district that I first learned it, as I watched the documentary entitled Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope. Suddenly, the medical education I …
Even as a pediatrician, I didn’t realize stress started so young
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