Poetry and the Workplace
Christine Maslach, a preeminent researcher of burnout in the workplace, describes having had burnout in the workplace depicted to her as “an erosion of the soul”.David Whyte, an Anglo-Irish poet, brings his unique vision to the nurture of the “soul” in today’s workplace. After recently reading two of his books- “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation […]
A Passion for Educating the World
“The role of a bricks-and-mortar setting as the major option for legitimate knowledge transfer is a thing of the past.”— Erica Frank Erika Frank MD, MPH, FACPM is a Preventive Medicine physician, medical and educational researcher and public health and environmental advocate. Dr. Frank has dedicated her life and career to finding ways to create impact […]
Lead from Within: Paying Attention to the Space Inside
If someone asked you to describe your “inner self”, how would you respond? Would you stay silent, be confused, feel irritated, begin to babble or simply ignore the question? In many ways it is extraordinarily strange, yet extraordinarily common that we resist taking the time to understand and reflect on the innermost workings of the […]
Discover Mind Mapping
Have you ever found yourself staring at a list of your goals, carefully written out in neat bullet points and feeling utterly stuck and uninspired? Somehow these aspirations, well thought out as they are, just can’t seem to take off from the paper that they are written on. They have feet of clay! Is it […]
Physician Career Change: Beware the “Sunk Cost Fallacy”.
After years of education and training the meaning and purpose of medicine deeply embeds itself in the “DNA” of physicians. Burnout was already at an all-time high in physicians prior to the pandemic, and has only worsened since its onset. For some physicians, despite their best efforts, their desire to practice medicine, particularly in the […]
“Sheltersuit” Changes Lives
A fashion designer and a friend’s personal experience are the inspiration behind this story.
Ingenious Solutions- “The Medici Effect”
Reading The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson triggered visceral moments of excitement, resonance and inspiration within me. No discipline thrives without innovation. Being open to the knowledge and experience of diverse fields of endeavor not only stimulates novel ways of thinking, but promotes the spirit of collaboration. I believe it was around the time I first read […]
A Physician turned Artist Transcends Boundaries
The Artist Within I recently read the fascinating story of Dr. Gindi, a German/Egyptian physician turned sculptor. She traveled the world as a general practitioner before shifting her life into that of an artist, studying at the Florence Academy of Art. Although she states that this may not be the most expected transition for a physician, she […]
Live with Intention
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”- Henry David Thoreau. What does it mean to live your life deliberately, […]