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Compassion Fatigue

  • You disgust me . . .

    Confronting disgust—both in ourselves and in our patients—is part of the job. Disgust doesn’t make us bad doctors. Denying it might.
    Dr. Ted Jablonski

  • All your life, you were wedded to ____

    ‘The doctor went for lunch,’ an emergency nurse told me. And a patient got angry. I said, 'Would you work 10 hours without eating or drinking?'

  • What if the premier worked as an FP for a month?

    Feel the challenge of finding words when there are no easy solutions—but also the quiet joy.
    Dr. Jabir Jassam - headshot

  • When we are not the doctor

    In medicine, we’re trained to stay rational and calm—but when illness strikes those we love, even the strongest clinical armor can fall away.
    Dr. Jabir Jassam - headshot

  • Filipino nurses shaken by Vancouver festival attack say tragedy ‘will not define us’

    Filipino-Canadian nurse Glesy Banton-Victoria says she had planned to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday but took a nap instead, exhausted by a funeral earlier in the day.
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  • I am a doctor

    For Doctors’ Day—May 1—Dr. Alykhan Abdulla shares his latest poem on identity and the everyday reality of the profession.
    Middle aged doctor standing in front of instruments in clinic room

  • That’s how the light gets in

    In this case report from 20 years ago, career palliative care physician Dr. Romayne Gallagher looks back at how much we've learned about helping patients with existential suffering.
    Dr. Romayne Gallagher smiling for a photo

  • The F-word

    A medical reporter confronts fatigue—and calls on physicians to share how they help patients (and themselves) manage it.
    Woman

  • Go hack yourself

    More unsolicited early career advice: gigs and hustles for the burgeoning doctor.
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  • Docs and socks, not always crazy

    Dr. Ginevra Mills thinks back to a case where she wondered: did her preceptor not know that Crazy Socks 4 Docs is about breaking down the stigma around mental health in physicians?
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