American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
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. [...]
Progressing Through Procrastination
My ongoing project of letting go of procrastination is going well… As I typed the previous sentence, I paused to [...]