American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
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 [...]
Your Underused Clinical Superpower
As clinicians, we meet hundreds or thousands of patients every year. What they all have in common, it is safe [...]
Manipulation or Good Doctoring?
A little while ago I went to a sit-down restaurant for lunch. I had to smile when the 20-something-year-old server [...]
Can Too Much Empathy Be a Bad Thing?
To answer the question in the heading – too much empathy can be bad for the empathizer and the person [...]
Clinician Humility
I was musing while driving this week about how my attitude and approach to patients had changed throughout my clinical [...]
Advice for a 78-Year-Old Psychiatrist
Request for Advice “Jack, I’m writing because I ran across one of your LifeBriefs from some time back. In it [...]
Managing Patients’ Horizons of Concern
Sorry for the obscure title of this essay. Once I explain, I hope you’ll agree that what I’m referring to [...]
Worry. Why it is So Compelling and So Harmful
We have evolved to survive. One survival strategy that has been selected is based on our capacity to anticipate the [...]