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I am surrounded by people all day, but I often feel alone. I’ve had years of training and experience, but I don’t have all the answers. My mission is to help, but I can feel completely helpless. There is noise all around me: IV lines beeping, nurses chatter, TV’s playing, but my pager makes me jump. …
With Spring and warmer weather just around the corner and thousands more people vaccinated against Covid each day, there’s a sense of freedom in the air. Freedom to see friends and family. Freedom to go to restaurants. Freedom to make travel plans. It’s a cautious freedom, but progress nonetheless. In the Jewish calendar, a lunisolar …
It’s been exactly one year since everything in the world changed and shut down. On Friday March 13, 2020 my kids went to school for what would be the last time for the rest of the year. When I look back at this last year, there are so many lessons that I’ve learned. Here are …
I recently coached a fellow physician about the stress she feels during some of her outpatient clinic days. She had several thoughts about what happens and what should or shouldn’t happen. For example, clinic should run on time. Patients shouldn’t be late. I should get to eat lunch. Patients shouldn’t have unrealistic expectations and bring …
Last night I heard a sound that I have not heard in some time – laughter from all my kids. It was not just regular laughter, but that deep belly laughter that often ends up in snorts. We were celebrating the holiday of Purim in a very Covid fashion by listening to the typical Megilla …
I recently celebrated another trip around the sun, but this one felt very different than years past. It’s not just because it was a pandemic birthday with no parties or candles to blow out in front of family and friends. And it’s not because it was less exciting with no real plans to go or …
The last three months have gone by much faster than I expected. My kids have been home doing remote learning this entire school year so far with no clear return date to school. Covid-19 cases continue to rise in our area and around the country and world, so I have little hope of them returning …
For the last several weeks many families, including my own, have had to grapple with the decision of whether or not to send their kids to school in person or keep them home and do elearning. Schools collected surveys, sometimes on more than one occasion, to try to develop some plan for the fall. There …
I have some very exciting new to share. In case my two or three readers haven’t noticed yet, I added a subscribe button to this blog!!! Yes, this is a very thrilling development for me in my blogging journey. From the time I started this blog, I envisioned a forum that might grow with time. …
Wherever I look these days, I see an either/or mentality. Black or white. No room for gray. It impacts race, religion, politics, life. We are humans with many layers. With depth. Complexity. But that’s gone now. We are either an ally or a racist. We listen to CNN and The New York Times or to …