by Jeremy Topin | Aug 9, 2018 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager, Transformation, Triathlon
Two friends (younger than me by more than two decades) are training for the Ironman and I decided to join them for their first of two 40-mile loops. I had already decided to defer my own race entry to next year due to a combination of aches and pains, along with...
by Jeremy Topin | Aug 7, 2018 | Balance, Parenting, Uncategorized
Picture Credit (John Moore/Getty Images) “…if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. “we must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must...
by Jeremy Topin | Jun 2, 2018 | Change, Medical Education
Welcome new PG-1’s! One day you wake up a medical student. Then by the afternoon you are a MD. A few short days later, you are now in the hospital no longer looking for someone to co-sign your orders in the EMR. It’s a crazy time, full of excitement as well as an...
by Jeremy Topin | May 30, 2018 | Medicine, Transformation
A few years ago, I stumbled upon the Moth Stories. Originally based out of New York, but now in cities around the country, people would come together at a venue to share and listen to personal stories based on a theme for the evening. Ten people, randomly selected...
by Jeremy Topin | May 22, 2018 | Balance, Change, Transformation
So, a wannabe author/writer walks in to a writer’s conference… Sounds like the beginning of a not very funny joke. But, that was me earlier this month as I attended the Harvard’s Writing, Publishing and Social Media Conference for Healthcare Professionals. Quite a...
