Nothing is certain, except uncertainty. You really never know when you or someone you love might experience a life-changing event or diagnosis. My guest on the most recent Lean Out Podcast is Dr. Sara Whittingham. Sara is an anesthesiologist, an Air Force veteran who served in Afghanistan, an …
Lean Out Podcast: Communication with Christine Ko
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call to slow us down. For me, it happened in the form of a cancer - which is why I share information on self-care and work-life balance so you hopefully don't get to the point where I was before making changes. For my recent guest on the Lean Out Podcast, Dr. …
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 …
An Appeal to Physicians to Normalize Infertility
I've talked a fair amount about infertility on this site. But how does it dovetail with designing your ideal work life balance? Physicians (and other professionals, for that matter) are conditioned to put our heads down and keep working. To not appear weak. To not ever get sick. But the reality …
The Case For Functional Fitness
Working in an operating room and following my patients postoperatively give me a great appreciation for the role of proper body functioning before and after surgery. I distinctly remember my own postoperative experience after major brain surgery, six years ago this month. I spent days lying in a …
You Never Hear Doctors Say, "I Can’t Come In Today, I’m Sick."
The surgery resident was seeing stars as she sutured the wound. "I need a chair," she whispered, slowly sitting back into the air behind her (where no chair currently existed). The nurse caught her, and I ran over. "I'm just not feeling well. I threw up earlier this morning." I gave her an …
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