by Jeremy Topin | Oct 26, 2018 | Balance, Change, Transformation
I am excited to bring another guest post to Balance, written by Doctor Monisha Vasa! Monisha is a psychiatrist, mother and writer, currently living in Orange County, California, but has strong ties to Chicago growing up in the southwest suburbs. I have had the...
by Jeremy Topin | Oct 17, 2018 | Balance, Burnout, Change, Medical Education, Mental Health, Parenting, Transformation
I wanted to share a sincere thank you to Elizabeth Metraux at Primary Care Progress, for the opportunity to be interviewed on her Podcast, Relational Rounds. Becky and I were able to share our story from medical school and residency training to fellowship and private...
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 | 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...