Monthly Archives: July 2019
You will need mentors. You will need friends. I tell my medical students to appoint a “board of directors” — three to five people — to guide their decisions on career and life. I also tell them to build at least three communities of friends. The communities can be work, a church, golf buddies, danceContinue reading
THE COURAGE TO TELL YOUR STORY
” There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” Maya Angelou There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” —MAYA ANGELOU
Why Would Anyone Live This Way
Desperado Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses? You been out ridin’ fences for so long now Oh, you’re a hard one But I know that you got your reasons These things that are pleasin’ you Can hurt you somehow Don’t you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy She’ll beat you if she’s ableContinue reading “Why Would Anyone Live This Way”
kindness
I am me. You are you.
OTHER PEOPLE’S BAGGAGE. NYT
Don’t take on other people’s baggage I worked on an emergency mental health/suicide hotline. One really busy night, early in my tenure, I answered the line. Before I got even one word out, a voice shouted into the phone, “I’m going to kill myself and then I’m going to kill you,” and hung up. I’llContinue reading “OTHER PEOPLE’S BAGGAGE. NYT”
