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I’m just back from receiving an early career achievement award at the University of Iowa. The hard conversation while I was there was about pediatric ophthalmology, which is in trouble. There are only 15 fellows across the entire country this year. I get into the hidden curriculu ...  Show more

I failed my very first standardized patient encounter in medical school because I saw a 49-year-old woman with abdominal pain and did not order a pregnancy test — immediate fail, well-earned shame, lesson learned — and it turns out that story is actually a pretty good entry point ...  Show more

We know that healthcare workers are burned out and exhausted. Provider mental health is a huge issue… but are the institutions listening?  This week on It’s OK, burnout expert Dr. Jessi Gold talks to us about (obviously) burnout, but also ways HCW* can start to change the workpla ...  Show more

Some people call the mental and emotional stress that healthcare workers have faced this past year ‘burnout.’ But burnout existed in the industry long before Covid-19. So what do you call something that’s more exhausting and enduring than that? Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with emerge ...  Show more

As an assistant professor, practicing psychiatrist, university wellness leader, and regular media expert, Jessi Gold was used to constant busyness. But when mental exhaustion led her to commit an unthinkable error during a patient session, she was forced to reevaluate everything ...  Show more