American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
A Cognitive Bias that Hurts Your Career
Based on the type of people that we physicians and other health care professionals tend to be – successful, disciplined, rule-following – and the formative experiences [...]
The Attention Approach – Overcoming Stuckness Part 3
Are you feeling stuck in your life? Many people are. No one is immune. Neither wealth nor health nor younger [...]
Overcoming Stuckness Part 2
Last week I wrote about a certain type of belief that can keep people stuck in whatever dissatisfying state they [...]
Achieving Goals is Hard. Make it Easier.
Humans live by goals. We have evolved with the extraordinary ability to imagine alternatives. We live in a dual reality. [...]
Reasons to Journal
Despite its wide acceptance, journaling is not as systematically widely used. I believe in journaling’s (or simply writing’s) benefits: if [...]
One Half of Stress Management
I have come to believe that many approaches to managing psychological stress are incomplete. If you are at least moderately [...]
Explore and Define Your Clinical Role
I posit that the more clearly you define your clinical roles—and maintain flexibility around them to address individual patient’s needs [...]
Time for Kindness
Sometimes we are less kind than we would like, because we don’t know “HOW” to be kind. Today I discuss [...]