“When people think of eating disorders, the image is often of an emaciated, white teenage girl in the hospital hooked up to feeding tubes. In fact, eating disorders are varied in how they present in a person, and they certainly do not ‘look…
Category: Psychiatry
Help stop health care burnout
The landscape of medicine and health care is constantly changing. With the integration of electronic medical records (EMR) and other technological advances, physicians and health care providers must be much more adaptable than ever before and possess u…
10 suggestions for a smoother high school experience
I used to spend most of my day listening. As a high school counselor, I encouraged teenagers to talk. Feeling stressed, they said, is their automatic response to demanding teachers, parents’ high expectations, and the drama of shifting friendship…
10 suggestions for a smoother high school experience
I used to spend most of my day listening. As a high school counselor, I encouraged teenagers to talk. Feeling stressed, they said, is their automatic response to demanding teachers, parents’ high expectations, and the drama of shifting friendship…
Re-wounding the wounded healer
I walk onto the inpatient unit on a Monday morning. The feeling of discomfort begins to overwhelm me. Perhaps this was due to being forced back to inpatient, but I felt it had to do with changes in the process. I started my training at a time when ther…
Simple solutions for social connections
When Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa acquired the company that makes Lovot, a pet-sized robot for emotional support, it spoke about more than a financial investment in robotics. The news was tied to love, companionship, and healing. It also reveal…
A psychiatrist presenting emotion [PODCAST]
“Many families still prefer their providers to wear a mask. I have no way to know who carries what political or health views around their mask-wearing. Their masks were off, and mine was on. When I asked them for their preference of whether they …
The extortion of physicians: If doctors don’t pay up they don’t work
I am a former associate director in a state physician health program (PHP). I also hold faculty appointments at Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School in ethics and psychiatry. I started writing about PHPs a decade ago. Almost immediatel…
What I learned after being hacked on social media
“The email on your account was changed. If you didn’t change your email address, you can secure your account here.” I saw this email from Instagram and immediately had a sinking feeling in my stomach. I clicked the link, but it was to…
How to solve burnout with communication [PODCAST]
“How does it work? We teach people to speak to one another’s values. Have you heard of listening to answer vs. listening to understand? Well, we take that one step further. We teach first to use personality science to find the values of everyone …
