Wellness

• Meditation in Medicine

  Image credit: Pexels Author: Puja Gopal, MDUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine This post was peer reviewed. Click to learn more. Recently when watching the evening news, I came across an interesting segment focusing on how teaching meditation in middle and high schools in San Francisco has led to many positive measurable changes. School officials […]
• The Future of Wellness

  Image credit: Pexels Authors: Andrea Purpura, MD; Robert Lam, MD; and Ryan DesCamp, MDAAEM/RSA Wellness Committee Originally published: Common Sense September/October 2019 If you feel like you are suffering symptoms of burnout, you are not alone. Most prevalence studies show that more than 65% of all emergency physicians are experiencing symptoms of burnout.1 Most physicians find they […]
• Why We Shouldn’t Teach Doctors to be Well

  Image Credit: Pexels Author: Arlene Chung, MD MACM FAAEMOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2019 My nightmare is waking up to a phone call in the middle of the night with a frantic chief resident telling me that one of our residents is dead. We shouldn’t be teaching our doctors how to be well. Teaching the […]
• The Cruelty of Depression

  Image Source: pxhere This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Becky Lee, MS4University of Maryland School of MedicineAAEM RSA Wellness Committee In the middle of a hot August day, excited chatter echoed inside the dome of the columned, 200-year-old medical school building. It was our first day of medical school, and my classmates […]
• Burning Both Ends of the Candle

  Image Credit: Common Sense Author: Faith Quenzer, DOAAEM/RSA At-Large Board MemberOriginally Published: Common Sense July/August 2018 I wasn’t out of the woods yet. After the birth of my first child, my son would keep me up every two to three hours a night. This was not what I imagined life to be as a mother. […]
• Wellness and Resiliency Summit

  2017 Wellness and Resiliency Summit Authors: Ashely Alker, MD, AAEM/RSA President 2017-18 and Robert Lam, MD FAAEM, AAEM Wellness Committee ChairOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2017 Emergency medicine has historically had the highest rate of reported burnout among all specialties. In the 2017 Medscape Lifestyle Survey, 59% of emergency physicians self-identified as “burned out.” A […]
• Dying to Save Lives

  Image Credit: Pixabay Author: Ashely Alker, MD MSc, PGY-3 2017-18 AAEM/RSA PresidentOriginally Published: Common Sense November/December 2017 I remember the day I was accepted to medical school. It was one of the happiest days of my life. The first six months of medical school I fought against the imposter syndrome that plagued my incredible reality: […]
• Group Therapy

  Author: Mary Haas, MDAAEM/RSA President ’16-’17Originally Published: Common Sense January/February 2017 It was Monday night, and Halloween. It was the perfect storm of an ever-expanding waiting room and a revolving-door resuscitation bay occupied by sick patient after sick patient. Following an emotionally exhausting shift, I sat with some fellow residents at The Pizza House, a […]
• Meditation in Medicine

  Photo Credit: “Meditation” by Sebastian Wiertz: https://flic.kr/p/aht7Wt. Author: Puja Gopal, MSIVUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine Recently when watching the evening news, I came across an interesting segment focusing on how teaching meditation in middle and high schools in San Francisco has led to many positive measurable changes. School officials have noted better attendance, better […]

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