American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies
A Walk Can Sometimes Change Your Life
Back sometime in early spring 2003, I took a long walk in the forest. I like walking because that’s where [...]
Your Invisible Burden
Recall or imagine the following scenario: a very important and likely stress-inducing event that involves you directly has just concluded. [...]
Seasons of Life: Autumnal Work
This weekend I met up with a friend I hadn’t seen in a few years. He’s 52 and recently had [...]
A Perfectionism That Will Kill Your Exam Performance
Many of the questions I hear, though phrased differently, often point to the same underlying problem. The problem is a [...]
A Transformative Bucket List
Recently, I was at one of my regular joints for lunch, and at the table next to me were a [...]
How to Overperform
Why am I writing on overperformance – a concept that may or may not be intuitive and that, in any [...]
Hidden Emotions that Interfere with Decisions
How does one make better decisions, ones that are more confidently undertaken, more fully acted upon, and that lead to [...]
Never Be Lonely Again
Many of our readers – graduating residents and fellows – have recently moved to a new city or new work [...]