Warren Holleman, PhD
Warren Holleman is a physician wellness educator.
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Patient voices
An article from the Wall Street Journal caught my attention, and for all the wrong reasons. It was a review of two recent studies showing that medical trainees have difficulty diagnosing patients with complicated histories or confounding psychosocial features. At…
An article from the Wall Street Journal caught my attention, and for all the wrong reasons. It was a review of two recent studies showing that medical trainees have difficulty diagnosing patients with complicated histories or confounding psychosocial features. At least, that’s the way I would describe those studies.
The WSJ, however, used much more pejorative language, referring to them as “difficult patients,” “a nuisance,” and “an annoyance.” …
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Patients are not a nuisance to their physicians
Physician voices
Sure, it’s nice to think about cutting back on the work hours and spending more time at home with the kids. Or out on the running trails getting fit and enjoying nature. Or singing in a chorus. But how do…
Sure, it’s nice to think about cutting back on the work hours and spending more time at home with the kids. Or out on the running trails getting fit and enjoying nature. Or singing in a chorus. But how do you really make that decision? And if you do decide to work part-time, how do you make the most of it?
After struggling to juggle two full-time health care careers with …
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Tips for physicians thinking about working part-time
Conditions and diseases
New Year’s resolutions have the potential to make our lives new and different and better than ever. But they also can do more harm than good. That’s because we put all our energy into setting the goal and don’t do…
New Year’s resolutions have the potential to make our lives new and different and better than ever. But they also can do more harm than good. That’s because we put all our energy into setting the goal and don’t do the homework necessary to meet that goal. By the time February arrives, we’ve relapsed to our old habits and, what’s worse, we’ve given up hope of ever losing that weight …
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Warning! New Year’s resolutions may be hazardous to your health
Physician voices
Have you heard of Dr. Kildare? When I was a kid, he was the most popular doctor in the world. He was smart, courageous, and handsome, and every week he did something amazing at Blair General Hospital. Thanks to my…
Have you heard of Dr. Kildare? When I was a kid, he was the most popular doctor in the world. He was smart, courageous, and handsome, and every week he did something amazing at Blair General Hospital.
Thanks to my mother, I grew up hearing stories about a real-life Dr. Kildare. We’ll call him Dr. B, and he was a legend in my home state of North Carolina.
My mother was a …
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How administrators can earn the respect of the medical and nursing staff
Physician voices
After the birth of our second child, the two of us waved a white flag and started working part-time. We surrendered the notion that we could maintain two full-time health careers and still be effective parents and loving spouses. Not…
After the birth of our second child, the two of us waved a white flag and started working part-time. We surrendered the notion that we could maintain two full-time health careers and still be effective parents and loving spouses. Not to mention sane and happy human beings.
It wasn’t supposed to be that way. Doors were opening to professional women, to two-career marriages, and to flexible work arrangements. Ours was the …
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Why we decided to “throw away our promising careers” and work part-time
Physician voices
We were the consummate lovebirds. We studied together, exercised together, and went grocery shopping together. When she started medical school, I took a summer job in the school’s maintenance department, just so we could eat lunch together. We couldn’t fathom…
We were the consummate lovebirds. We studied together, exercised together, and went grocery shopping together. When she started medical school, I took a summer job in the school’s maintenance department, just so we could eat lunch together. We couldn’t fathom being separated an entire day.
It was a magical time. We worked hard, played hard, and talked late into the night — yet rose early the next morning, energized and ready to go. …
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Married to medicine: My ménage à trois
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