by Jeremy Topin | Sep 26, 2018 | Balance, Medicine, Mental Health
Something was not right, and that something was the first-year resident in front of me. He had come down to the emergency department (ED) to admit a patient to the intensive care unit, full of a frenetic energy that was out of place for the midnight hour. I was the...
by Jeremy Topin | Aug 28, 2018 | Balance, End of life, Medical, Medical Education, Parenting
It is my pleasure to introduce to the readers of Balance, Dr. Rebecca MacDonell-Yilmaz. Becky is a pediatrician out on the East coast who has not only just completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative care medicine, but has just embarked on her third board...
by Jeremy Topin | Aug 22, 2018 | Balance, Change, Parenting, Transformation
I am sitting in the parking lot, waiting for the local bookstore, The Book Bin, to open. I am here because of a flower. And a pear tree turned maple. And a sense of time and space. And the writer Dostoyevsky. Sipping my morning coffee, with the Jeep’s soft top down, I...
by Jeremy Topin | Aug 13, 2018 | Balance, Burnout, Transformation
This was first written and posted on Doximity’s Op-(M)ed and can be seen by clicking here… I will be writing monthly for them and hope to have a year-long discussion about the trials and travails of being part-time. Whether its enjoying more time with the...
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...
