The Measured Breath: Words and Other Vital Signs
Two simple words, “inhale” and “exhale,” open a larger exploration of language, breath, narrative medicine, and how physicians and patients make meaning.
Two simple words, “inhale” and “exhale,” open a larger exploration of language, breath, narrative medicine, and how physicians and patients make meaning.
Americans spend trillions on healthcare, yet doctors and hospitals are reconsidering insurance contracts. What happens when coverage no longer guarantees access?
As fewer physicians own their practices, employers increasingly control the infrastructure around physician work. The next chapter of autonomy may depend on physicians building professional assets of their own.
An OB-GYN reflects on how rushed care and healthcare productivity pressures are affecting both physicians and patients, and what medicine risks losing along the way.
Female physicians talk constantly about imposter syndrome. But what if some of that discomfort isn’t a confidence problem at all and the real problem is the system?
It took an overseas firewall to make one physician truly stop working. A provocative look at hustle culture, ambition, physician identity, and learning when to turn it off.
Patients increasingly arrive asking for a specific pill, test or referral. What happens when what they request differs from what their physician believes they need?
How much healthcare work exists simply to interact with other healthcare work? A look at prior authorization, denials, appeals and the costly machinery surrounding patient care.
AI can generate endless medical content. A change at X raises a more interesting question: could genuine physician expertise become valuable online again?
Is burnout too broad a word for physician distress? A look at how choice, capability, connection, and contribution may better explain what physicians have lost.
For physicians, allowing medicine to move down the list can feel strangely like failure. Perhaps that says something about the profession we were trained to enter.
Healthcare tells physicians to become more resilient. But what if bouncing back is the wrong goal? One physician argues for empathy, mastery, humility, and growth instead.
Caring for aging parents while raising a family can leave you wondering what’s wrong with you. A psychiatrist suggests asking a different question.
Dr. Lara Barbir, Psy.D. specializes in trauma-informed insights on nervous system regulation, reparenting, and emotional security to help adults, parents, and clinicians move from insight to embodied change.
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