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Taking a Step Back to Move Forward

Taking a Step Back to Move Forward

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...
The pace and path to mindfulness

The pace and path to mindfulness

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...
How Do You Know When Someone Is Broken?

How Do You Know When Someone Is Broken?

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...
Seventeen-years-old and into the Great Wide Open..

Seventeen-years-old and into the Great Wide Open..

by Jeremy Topin | Nov 4, 2017 | Balance, Change

“Into the great wide open..  Under a sky of blue”                   -Tom Petty In the absence of moonlight, the summer lake house had been pitch dark when we arrived. The five of us had made a spontaneous late-night decision to drive from the northern suburbs of...
My wife miscarried while I was on call. What this medical resident chose to do.

My wife miscarried while I was on call. What this medical resident chose to do.

by Jeremy Topin | Oct 17, 2017 | Balance, Burnout, Healthcare Reform, Medical Education, Medicine, Parenting

The day began the same as yesterday. As well as every day prior to that for the last few months. I was tired. Exhausted. The type of fatigue that envelops your brain in a dense fog, altering the way you see and hear the world around you. The type that impairs your...
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