<span itemprop="author">Vickie Leff, LCSW

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Revolutionizing health care: Rethinking burnout and resilience

I read all the time about the strategies and measures physicians and other health care professionals take to mitigate, reduce, or immunize themselves against burnout, moral distress, and empathic strain. We have been talking about this for decades, wit…

Overcoming terminal cancer: a tale of love and resilience

An excerpt from Mirrors and Windows: Reflections on the Journey in Serious Illness Practice. I’m sitting next to Tony in the surgical intensive care unit doing my best to make out what he’s writing. He’s intubated and I’ve just …