<span itemprop="author">Beverly Joyce, MD

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How do we help physicians in the time of COVID?

There’s a phrase we use in golf when you hit one good shot after many bad ones: “That was whipped cream on sh*t.” I used this phrase the other day in a collaborative of coaches whom I had just met (maybe not the best idea). I spoke sp…

I loved my job yesterday, but I don’t love it every day

I complain about my job all the time. The frustrations are endless. For example, EMR changes that seem pointless and create more clicks, instead of fewer, the constant barrage of patient emails in my inbox that start with “I have a question about…

Physicians and the midlife dip

It seems that the midlife “slump,” “crisis,” or “malaise” phenomenon is actually something that has been studied and written about a lot in the last 40+ years. The phrase “midlife crisis” was originally coined in the 1960s, as explains Jonathan Rauch i…

Wellness during the COVID-19 crisis

We are more than a month into the shelter-in-place, and there are many thoughts that can come up for physicians.  Our frontline workers, who are dealing with limited viral testing, inadequate treatments for ill patients, scarcity of PPE, and fear of th…