Our obsession with exercise needs to go the way of Nickelback. It’s been fun, but it’s time to move on. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not compl...

Every August, Burning Man Organization lays out the framework for a city. This infrastructure includes streets, emergency medical service...

Having completed residency and beginning a fellowship in which the program appreciates, above all, support for the mental, emotional, and...

It usually starts in your late twenties. You leave the college optimism behind as you embark on your less-than-dream profession. You work...

Boredom stimulates creativity. When I was a kid, we spent our days poking roadkill, creating whistles out of grass, and pegging one anoth...

At our fellowship process group this morning, we were given a simple task. From an arrangement of plastic animals, creatures, and dinos...

Dave Matthews wrote a great song called Seek Up in 1993: “Look at me and my fancy car and my bank account Oh, how I wish I could take it ...

I work at a large, business-savvy HMO headquartered on the West Coast but gradually expanding across the nation. This particular organi...

Every day you interact with hundreds of people. Each of those people has their own story, and the experience of their day could range a...

A few weeks ago, I spent a Thursday evening with my friends on the beach. We started by setting up a blanket near the Santa Monica pier ...

Life’s daily motions can be inconvenient and distracting. Junk that happened in the past, present, and future could be affecting your be...

I’m in my 30s. At this time in my life, I find value in the integration of people into my life who know what they stand for. They have a...

Physicians have an identity problem. We were directed years ago into a profession in which we plan a central role in helping others. As ...

Abraham Maslow is considered the godfather of the positive psychology movement. Generally speaking, before he came on to the scene, psyc...

In a cesarean section, a procedure that I have performed hundreds of times, there’s always a lot of blood. Most patients lose at least ...

What if you accepted that your greatest accomplishment is behind you? This framework is a relief to the ego, and it could provide many ...

Asking for help takes courage. Likewise for admitting mistakes. As physicians, we are expected to be perfect and whole, and seeing the fa...

What is the function of this body? If it’s just a meat suit carrying us from point A (birth) to point B (death), we better take care of ...

I’m a young doctor. At the time of this blog’s creation, I was at the end of a four-year OB/GYN residency training program. The nature ...