“I started looking around and seeing things that I was missing.” “I can still be a surgeon and not work as much. I can still be a surgeon and get the respect, get the support around me, but actually build a life outside of work as well.” “Doors are opening and doors are closing for all the …
Lean Out Podcast: Education with Kara Wada
You're in your first "real job." You've arrived! Yet it's not necessarily what you expected. Things are hard, but you're on the treadmill. Until your health fails and you have to get off. My guest today on the Lean Out Podcast is Dr. Kara Wada, a quadruple-board-certified …
A Few of My Favorite Things: 2023 Gift Guide
It's yet again the season for giving thanks and giving gifts. Winter is pretty much here; the pines are covered with a little shelf of white, and the road to our homestead will soon be passable with tracked vehicles only. It truly is a winter wonderland, and even though it's cold, we still get out …
A Balanced Holiday Gift Guide
Happy holidays! What are you up to this winter? I'm finishing up the first draft of my book (out Spring 2023), and I'm about to complete my 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification. Blending both these endeavors into my personal balance of outdoor time, family time, and work time has made for …
Learning Through Snorkeling
We wade into the aqua blue Caribbean that’s lapping at the white sand of Trunk Bay. I’m holding her hand, our masks and snorkels on. No fins (too easy!), but she’s wearing a floatie vest. Farther and farther out we go to where I eventually can’t reach the bottom. The aqua color morphs to …
Modern Medicine Is Both Amazing And Saddening
A 29 year-old woman was carried into the emergency room by her dirty, bearded husband. She was semi-conscious and slurring her speech. The couple first encountered some opposition to treatment, as this was 1979 and still the age when bearded men were automatically assumed to be hippie drug addicts. …