Try PROBE Tool to Help Stave Off Burnout
When a friend of a friend of mine committed suicide recently, it hit me harder than I would have imagined. I didn’t know the man and knew little about him other than that he was an emergency medicine resident and a member of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. When I learned of his tragic passing, I went back and read something he had posted on social media a couple of years ago that stood out as particularly...
Trying to Find Closure
With three months of residency left to go, I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Three eventful years full of emotions, full of expectations, full of trials and tribulations. Alas, how will I ever find closure? My winter months were spent hibernating with chiefing duties in the hospital, so little was left in the way of sitting down and reflecting. Recovering from those high cortisol months has been a slow downhill...