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By Ron Epstein, MD

Distraction is about how we react to stimuli. In a busy overcrowded, noisy, smelly emergency room, as the visual, auditory, olfactory, and tactile stimuli increase in frequency and intensity, it takes increasing amounts of effort to stay focused. We might provide exquisite care but become increasingly exhausted and experience burnout. Or the care might not be so exquisite…

By Mick Krasner, MD

“For it is in the giving that we receive.”
– St. Francis of Assisi

Medicine as a profession and as a way of being brings us close into this aspect of our inclination to give to others. It allows us as professionals to support others and ourselves with right livelihood…

By Ron Epstein, MD

For those of us who work in complex, clumsy and chaotic work settings, the idea of mindful organizations might seem aspirational at best, and maybe an oxymoron. That said, suspend your disbelief for a moment and imagine what a mindful organization might be like…

By Mick Krasner

Each of us may have versions of other attributes of exemplary clinicians…

By Ron Epstein

Seeing starts with awareness, noticing what we see, and being open to noticing what we don’t.

By Mick Krasner
“I don’t know where we are going, but I know exactly how to get there.” ~ Shangaan Tsonga tribe lion tracker.

By Ron Epstein, MD

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” F Scott Fitzgerald

By Mick Krasner, MD

For 30 days In April and May of 2023, I walked the Camino de Santiago de Compostela for over 800 kilometers in Northern Spain. There are several pilgrim paths on the Camino, and I walked the Camino del Norte which hugs the northern coastline of the Iberian peninsula before turning inland for the final few days before arriving in Santiago

By Ron Epstein, MD

When I am teaching, I frequently quote Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi’s aphorism “The most important thing is to remember the most important thing.”

By Mick Krasner, MD

On a recent holiday traveling with eight of my family members, I was reminded of the song by the classic rock band, Cream, ‘Strange Brew’. How I got there, at least as far as I can trace the sequence of thoughts that led me, was first a reflection on how very different and at the same time very similar a group of closely or loosely related human beings can be,