Resource type: Personal Stories
Developing Empathy Takes More Than You Know

In this blog post for the Journal of American College of Radiology, Andrea Borondy Kitts describes her experience and struggles as a recovering patient after...

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A Physician’s Suffering – Facing Depression as a Trainee

Published in JAMA, this perspective piece by Colleen M. Farrell details her own experience with depression during her fourth year of medical school. Despite...

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Re-Enchanting Medicine

The author of the following perspective piece discusses the disenchantment of medical practice, which often leads to physicians feeling symptoms of burnout. He...

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Relationship of a Physician’s Well-Being to Interactions with Patients: Practices of the Highest Performing Physicians on the Art of Medicine Patient Survey

The following study seeks to understand what physicians do to most satisfy their patients, and how they maintain a state of well-being in their clinical practices....

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A Physician’s Suffering – Facing Depression as a Trainee

Published in JAMA, this perspective piece by Colleen M. Farrell details her own experience with depression during her fourth year of medical school. Despite...

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Doctoring to Heal: Fostering Well-Being Among Physicians Through Personal Reflection

The following is an account of a discussion group intervention called Doctoring to Heal that has been held monthly since 1996 in the Division of General Internal...

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Out of the Straitjacket

Michael Weinstein shares his personal narrative, in a New England Journal of Medicine Perspectives paper, of burnout, treatment, and gradual recovery. Through...

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SIGECAPS, SSRIs, and Silence — Life as a Depressed Med Student

Michael R. Rose shares his battle with depression as a medical student -- the signs and symptoms that he had trouble identifying and admitting to himself. He sheds...

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Grit, Gravity & Grace: New Poems about Medicine and Healthcare

Published in the Journal of Medical Humanities, this article reviews Grit, Gravity, and Grace, a modest collection of 41 poems. Nash Woods gives a detailed account...

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Gardening in a desert

Deployed Air Force Physician, Maj Travis Stephensen, writes an somber narrative painting a vivid picture of the disillusionment that befalls him during his...

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