Today, I’m closing our series, Things I Wish I Knew Before Quitting Medicine, with a topic close to my heart: standards and self-worth.
I’d like to start with a quote that changed my life years ago. Don Miguel Ruiz wrote:
“Nobody treats you worse than you treat yourself. If they did, you would have left immediately.”
In this post, I continue my series on “Things I Wish I Knew Before Quitting Medicine.” Today’s topic may resonate far beyond the world of healthcare: values and integrity.
This is no longer just a conversation about physician burnout—it’s about the spiritual crisis unfolding in our workplaces, and in our world.
Love and health are, hands down, my two favorite topics in the world. As Valentine’s Day approaches, the world (and Hallmark) join me in celebrating love, but there’s something they often forget: Love is more than a noun—it’s a verb. It requires action and effort.
Stress is the new smoking. That’s my biggest takeaway from the Harvard Mind-Body Health course. Stress overload raises the risk for nearly every chronic illness imaginable.
Today, I share the first video in the series “What I Wish I Knew Before Quitting Medicine.” In this video, I tell the story of the first time I experienced the tug of cognitive dissonance—and how I chose to ignore it. I’ll use this story to highlight the three most important mistakes I made, mistakes that could have changed the course of my journey if I had addressed them earlier.
