American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
Goal Attainment Strategies
Striving to attain an important life goal is hard, usually requires multiple steps over an extended period, and is prone [...]
Finding Momentum in Inadequacy
Life is complicated. We constantly need to learn something new. Too much, though, is new. Always new. The new does [...]
Never Succumb to Therapeutic Nihilism
An aspect of practicing medicine that often troubled me early in my career, and that arose periodically since when treating [...]
Motivational Strategies
A few years ago, I ran across something written by Angela Duckworth, the psychologist well-known for her research and writings [...]
You Are More Than a Clinician
Before a patient walks into your office, you’re just a random clinician the patient got an appointment with. That patient [...]
Encouragement Construed Anew
Words are perishable goods. With time they lose color and flavor, either rot away or dry into small hard things. [...]