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Noticing the Exquisite

Noticing the Exquisite

By Ron Epstein, MD

I have just completed two weeks of inpatient service in palliative care. The work is fraught, filled with challenges and unsolvable problems faced by those with intolerable suffering…

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What is Your Why?

What is Your Why?

By Mick Krasner, MD

There are leaders, and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or authority. Those who lead inspire us. We follow those who lead not for them but for ourselves. And it is those who start with “why” that can inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.
Simon Sinek- author of Start with Why

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Shared mind

Shared mind

By Ron Epstein, MD

In addition to my teaching and clinical work, I lead research teams devoted to helping patients and their families have a voice in their care and helping clinicians develop the skills to communicate effectively,

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Ninety seconds for the patient

Ninety seconds for the patient

By Ron Epstein, MD

So often we listen to respond, not to understand. As doctors, we are trained to respond; we are doers, we get to the point, take charge and fix.

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Considering who a physician is

Considering who a physician is

By Mick Krasner, MD

In many ways, choosing a career in medicine offers opportunities found in a few other professions. It can be described quite simply as the opportunity to work within one’s integrity.

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The ambiguity of grief

The ambiguity of grief

By Ron Epstein, MD

Having recently lost my mother to a long illness, the Orpheus myth speaks to me personally. A different kind of love, admittedly, but the themes of longing, grief, uncertain endings, loss, redemption – looking back and not looking back – sing clearly with me.

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On Timing

On Timing

By Fred Marshall, MD

I have been thinking about how to create spaciousness in my clinical encounters with patients and their families, and have discovered that focusing on creating space in encounters with myself and my family may be the best place to start. 

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Child’s Play

Child’s Play

By Richard E. Kreipe, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, FAED

As a medical student, I enjoyed pediatrics because it involved paying attention to the ever-advancing developmental capacity of patients.  For example, young infants would play peek-a-boo with me—a total stranger.  Their immature brains were already programmed to recognize my face as human, but unable to realize that I was still present…

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Possibility and Play

Possibility and Play

By Mick Krasner, MD

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?

Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

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