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“Pressure pushing down on me…” -David Bowie & Freddie Mercury

In medicine, you are asked to make important, sometimes life-changing, decisions every day.

Whether excessive pressure is self-imposed (hello, perfection!) or coming from external factors, your ability to function is impaired.

Your beautiful brain can only hold so much at once.

I’m offering you a tip for the day: Take the pressure off.

Get brutally honest with yourself, make a list of the things you don’t really have to do, and then?

LET. THEM. GO.

Credit: @Charity Hix

Let. Them. Go.

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