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...
by Jeremy Topin | May 18, 2018 | Balance, Change, Medicine, Transformation
Fast I eat. Fast. Often, I consume the food I place on my plate before I even make it to the kitchen table. It’s as if I grew up during times of famine, desperate for each and every morsel. On the rare night my family has dinner together, I am usually finishing just...
by Jeremy Topin | Apr 20, 2018 | Balance, Burnout, Change, Healthcare Reform, Medicine, Parenting, Transformation
How do you know when someone is broken? When their spirit is fractured? When their sense of self no longer aligns with what once was. When you feel as if you have woken up in a foreign land, but that sense of displacement is coming from you, not your surroundings. In...
by Jeremy Topin | Apr 3, 2018 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager, Transformation
Minutes into my early morning run, the howl of a lone coyote broke the silence in the basin. A second one responded, and then two quickly became three. Other coyotes joined in, their howling echoing all around. On previous trips to Oregon, I’d found comfort and hope...
by Jeremy Topin | Feb 14, 2018 | Balance, End of life, Medical
This piece was written together with a friend and colleague Chadi Nabhan, an oncologist and current Chief Medical Officer at Cardinal Health. This was originally published here in The Oncologist. The crowd erupts with joy, champagne bottles pop open, and everyone...
by Jeremy Topin | Feb 8, 2018 | Balance, Burnout, Medicine
I woke up to a blanket of white covering the ground. Unlike in childhood, this was not met with excited anticipation. Forced to skip my morning coffee, I layered up in my thermal gear and put on my boots, the blister on my heel reminding me to buy a pair that fits...
