Compassion Fatigue

I thought my life after fully recovering from an eating disorder would be smooth.

A return from sabbatical reveals a truth: patients readily grant doctors the grace that medical culture ruthlessly denies them.

On death, repetition and what physicians carry after the moment has passed.

Negativity isn’t a sign that you’re failing, but that you’re alive, engaged, and working in a profession that demands both your skills and your heart.

What I’ve come to realize is that anyone or anything can write the stories, especially AI. But not everyone can live the stories, and it is in the living that metrics and algorithms and data banks fail the test.

My mom is learning to walk again, with a walker. And I'm grieving.

They say laughter is the best medicine, but we suspect it might also be a purr, a tiny rodent in a jaunty toque or an enthusiastic welcome with a wet nose.

Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes discusses how she learned to give herself grace when the circumstances call for cutting corners.