Starting a Healthy Routine as a Busy Physician

Starting a Healthy Routine as a Busy Physician

Starting a healthy routine as a physician is attainable and it requires consistency. A healthy routine is not just doing 10 tricep dips in your office chair or running to your next clinical duty. It’s taking a full “strategic” break. What on earth is a “strategic”...
Stress is Not Allowed

Stress is Not Allowed

Your head hurts; your muscles ache. You’re noticing your shoulders tense all the time and you find yourself constantly trying to relax your neck muscles. The past six months, you know you have not been eating your normal healthy way of eating. It’s a vicious cycle...
When No One Pays Attention

When No One Pays Attention

I read an interesting Op-Ed today, a response to the most recent publication of Annals of Internal Medicine on the importance of recognizing the growing incidences of physician burnout and the importance of developing programs that support the health and wellness of...
All Work and No Play is Not Fun

All Work and No Play is Not Fun

Health professionals know, more than anybody, how work-related stress can affect one’s health, productivity, and output. While it is understandable that doctors focus on a lot of concerns daily, they still need to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Physicians...