The genesis of this article was a conversation between the authors: MI, a senior faculty
member, and JC, his primary care doctor and a midcareer faculty member. It addresses the …

" I just block it out!" said one of the award-winning physicians interviewed on the topic of
failure. The doctors who have been honored with Excellence in Medicine awards by the …

Contemplating retirement after 38 years as a family physician has, for me, been an
uncomfortably revealing process. I can't help but remember the few patient-care regrets that …

Nicholas J. Pisacano was an optimistic man. Considered to be the founding father of the
discipline of Family Medicine, Dr. Pisacano had already spent years working toward his goal …

“Just about the time you think you can make both ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” As
this aphorism implies, this is a time of anxiety and frustration, particularly for physicians who …

At the end of the Second World War, the US birth rate peaked at nearly 27 births per 1,000
population–a rate unparalleled in the previous 3 decades, and one that would not be …

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How do you embrace paradox, changing and growing without losing your sense of who you
are? We talked last time about the paradox of reaching for the new, without losing your …

Isaac Newton once said,“I stood on the shoulders of giants,” and not, milled on the edge of
the British 2£ coin are the words,“standing on the shoulders of giants.” Each generation of …

Advising thousands of medical students regarding their career choices over the past
45years, I often say that their initial decisions will point them in the general direction they are …