John D Mahan, MD Blog post adapted from https://ipghealth.com/news/new-disappearing-doctors-campaign-the-disposables-shines-light-on-physicians-lost-to-suicide A national initiative to boost awareness of a crisis in modern medicine – the increasing incidence of...

Instinct Joy Sullivan I’ve heard elephants think we’re cute but I doubt it. Instead, it's humans who are easily charmed. A species delighted by yellowing leaves and the decency of dogs. We're tender mammals mostly. Trying to keep each other afloat. Scooting earthworms...

Small Kindnesses, By Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are...

“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.” This is a quotation attributed to Dr. Rick Hanson, and I first heard it today in a STREAM Faculty Development presentation I attended. There’s a lot to chew on with that statement, I...

Many of us are familiar with the quotation, attributed to Lao Tzu, “The journey of one thousand miles begins with one step.” Each one of us participating in STREAM has begun a journey. Ideally, you have thought somewhat about the destination. Are you involved in...

I hope you are as eager to dive into the STREAM curriculum as I am.  This past week I tuned in, like many of you, to the first of the STREAM on-line programs and have begun working on a ‘wellbeing plan.’ Ironically, or perhaps not, later in the same week I came...

The Chinese character for “crisis” has two parts: one meaning danger and one meaning change point or opportunity. In my own life, my crisis came in young adulthood while I was in medical school, and it was indeed a change point that would set...

I hope those of you reading this blog post are, like me, looking forward to the beginning of the national STREAM physician training program. Even if you are not planning on joining the program, I hope you might take something away from this little essay. I celebrated...

While it may not be well known outside of health care, doctors experience burnout and other mental health concerns at higher rates than many other professionals. A 2021 survey found that 20% of doctors in the United States were experiencing symptoms of clinical...