In our goal of fighting physician burnout and promoting humanities in medical education, we think it essential to provide links to resources/other sites designed to help all of us become more resilient. We hope you find the sites and tools discussed here useful.
What are you doing to become more resilient? Do please take the time to share the contents of your toolbox with us.
Explore the Space Podcast
“Healthcare is one of the most ambitious and complex elements of the human experience. It is also ubiquitous; we all come in contact with the world of healthcare throughout our lives. Healthcare was and remains my calling and the professional challenge and thrill of a lifetime. Throughout my own evolving journey, the one constant, the one place where the calling is clear is the human interaction.”
The Nocturnists Podcast
“We aspire to transform the culture of medicine by shattering the myth of the physician hero, and revealing the truth: that doctors are human, just like everyone else, and that our humanity is our strength, not our weakness. We’ve created a space where healthcare workers can tell stories about their fears, doubts, mistakes, quirks, joys, and passions, and be embraced by their peers and the general public alike.”
MedHumChat
“MedHumChat (short for Medical Humanities Chat) strives to foster reflection, empathy, and connection in healthcare through engagement with the arts and humanities.”
Rana Awdish, MD
“Dr. Rana Awdish is the author of the critically-acclaimed, best-selling memoir, In Shock, based on her own critical illness. She is the Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a practicing Critical Care Physician. She lectures to physicians, health care leaders and medical schools both internationally and across the US on the necessity of compassionate care.”
Collen M Farrell, MD
“Colleen M. Farrell, MD is a pulmonary and critical care fellow in New York City. Her candid writings about her experiences in medical training and on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and JAMA, among other publications. An advocate for integrating the arts and humanities in medicine, she is the Founder and Director of MedHumChat.“
Sayed Tabatabai, MD
“On Twitter, Dr. Sayed Tabatabai’s feed shares really wonderful stories about his experiences as a Nephrologist.”
Some of our Favorite Quotes on Resiliency
“Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength, we are resilient”.
Catherine DeVrye, The Gift of Nature
“Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive”.”We are not a product of what happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice”.
Jean Chatzky
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance”.
Judi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop”.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“When we learn how to be resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautiful broad spectrum of the human experience”.
Jaeda Dewalt
“On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin”.
Gregory S. Williams
“Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others”.
Sharon Salzburg
“We are not a product of what happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice”.
Stephen Covey
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it”.
Maya Angelou
Daily Dose of Humanities 