Weekly Wellness: Get moving!
by: USACS
“If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll probably have to make time for illness” – Robin Sharma Your health is the most important thing. It controls your mood, your sleep, your ability to do your job, and your happiness. Remember that exercise doesn’t necessarily mean […]
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Weekly Wellness: Mental Health in the Workplace
by: USACS
“It’s so common. It could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.” Ruby Max We’ve heard about the physician suicides this year. Many of us know personally medical students and residents who have taken their own lives. […]
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Wellness Wednesday: Toward Kindness
by: USACS
“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most. ” -Unknown Think about the last person that was unkind to you. So unkind that it stuck with you. That you couldn’t let it go. That it affected your day. That you still think about it, and it still makes you upset. Whoever it is: […]
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Wellness Wednesday: Take Time to Ask Other Physicians How They’re Doing
by: USACS
“People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help” – Glennon Doyle Tomorrow is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. Some of us wear our emotions on our sleeves. But many of us are more private. Some of us air our problems to everyone. But some of us keep them bottled […]
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Wellness Wednesdays: Forgiving Yourself
by: USACS
Becoming a physician is a long process, and to get where we are, we’ve had to hold ourselves to the highest of standards. As such, we are our own harshest critics. In our profession, that can make things difficult. We are human. We make mistakes. And sometimes those mistakes are the difference between life, death, […]
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