<span itemprop="author">Vickie Mulkerin, MD

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Physicians are human and grief is as much a part of the human experience as love

Since the first documented COVID death in the U.S. in February 2020, over 726,000 Americans have died. The number of deaths eclipses the death toll of any other American tragedy, whether war or the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, and health care pr…

Why physician-specialized private counseling practices are important

Last year, a physician friend began experiencing what she believed was burnout. She felt constantly overwhelmed, had difficulty sleeping and eating, and began to dread going into her office. She worried excessively about patient outcomes, decisions she…