Real Psychiatry

  Happy Labor Day   “It should be evident to all students, residents, and practicing physicians that the enormous investment in time, money,...

  This is my annual Labor Day greeting to my physician colleagues. I had to go back and look at last year’s greeting to see if I had factor...

I got this idea today while reading the usual Twitter complaints about the electronic health record. A post by physician I kne...

I attended the Minnesota Psychiatric Society (MPS) Spring Scientific Meeting today entitled "Reclaiming Our Joy and Wonder as H...

At least not nearly as much as there used to be. I read a comment by a medical student recently who said that he found nothing ...

I was sent a long list of burnout interventions from a colleague today.  It was quite amazing.  Opinion pieces on Burnout. TED talks on bu...

I got an ominous e-mail from the Psychiatric Times yesterday.  The title was "Before it's too late".  It reminded me th...

One of my favorite things these days is the concept (or is it diagnosis?) of burnout .  It seems to be a popular topic in m...

This is my fourtth Labor Day writing this blog and it is my custom to summarize the work environment for physicians like I did in Happy ...