Decompress

By the end of the day, the feeling that you are surrounded by contagious vectors can leave your flight and flight syste... Read more

We’re all getting super-efficient—with PPE, surge planning, pharmacy shortages—as a survival strategy. It’s a way of get... Read more

What do you do with moral outrage? It turns out that the way we approach and hold our moral outrage can drain us, or mot... Read more

“By the end of my shift,” this doctor writes, “every patient begins to blend into a single patient…..I can’t even keep t... Read more

My tendency after getting home from a long day is to plunge into the news—even though it just adds to the fear & unc... Read more

We are witnessing, and treating, and healing in ways that we didn’t even know we could do. The value of that—especially ... Read more

Yesterday, NPR ran a story about front-line clinicians that described how a nurse would spend his hour commute home ‘hau... Read more

Right now, the media is full of stories about loss, we’re confronted with it at work, and then even when we get home we ... Read more

When you can’t look someone in the eye—directly—your encounter isn’t quite the same. I’m not questioning the value of vi... Read more

A colleague of mine told me: “I’m coming to the realization that that I’m going to be processing this for a while. In ot... Read more

We keep hearing that we’re at war: the surge is coming, crisis standards, peak engagement. Certainly those war metaphors... Read more

Somehow I picked up from my mentors that to acknowledge gratitude was prideful, or maybe dangerous. I was wrong, and new... Read more

A friend said yesterday, “It’s like the rug has been pulled out from under us.” Reality check: it’s never been clearer t... Read more

How do we clinicians—even as we negotiate the dangers we face ourselves—do justice to those who work alongside us who ar... Read more

Reporters seem quite interested in the moments when a clinician’s sense of invulnerability is ‘shattered’. The New York ... Read more