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Letting go of perfectionism: a New Year’s resolution for self-compassion
Last week I drove to my favorite trails in Point Defiance Park. The roads seemed oddly empty and quiet, even for “the time between the years” as I’ve heard it called. Perhaps I hadn’t noticed it before, since in medicine, itR…
Discover the power of breathing: How a lesson in pediatrics helped me find inner calm
“Until I know you better, I will tell you how to breathe!” It’s my first day at the pediatric orthopedic hand specialty clinic on my pediatric ortho rotation in my third year of residency. I have just been barked at by the professor e…
Why reaching your goals won’t bring lasting happiness
It’s January, so much of social media, news, magazine articles, and the like turns to goals, goals, goals. Having a goal for your life is like having a diagnosis for a patient. Now you have a direction (for healing). You know what you have to do …
Learn to round on yourself
I always think of the beginning of July as the New Year in medicine. It’s when medical students become interns, interns become residents, and residents become newly minted attendings. With each change is an increase in responsibility. I remember paying…
