One of the hardest things to learn as a practising physician, says Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes, is figuring out the point at which to stop and put on your own oxygen mask before you go on to save the others.
Hippocrates supposedly said, “Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food.” Now, almost 2,400 years later, the “food is medicine framework” promotes the idea that healthcare systems should offer food interventions alongside pharmaceuticals.
The best antidote to endless paperwork and mounting patient expectations in the midst of a pandemic may very well be a week in the wilderness on Canada’s great northern rivers.