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.
Dr. Noah Kaufman recounts the brutal side of medical training, a confrontation with a surgeon, and the day he nearly quit medicine one month before finishing residency.
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.
Medicine can become so intertwined with identity that physicians forget who they are outside it. What parts of your life belong entirely to you?
Physicians remain medicine’s clinical experts, yet many have lost authority over how care is delivered. What happened to physician autonomy, agency, and leverage?
Online health websites can look remarkably medical. But scientific language, polished design, and clinical imagery cannot guarantee that the product behind them is safe, authentic, or regulated.
Noah Kaufman, MD, shares a wild ER night involving an unforgettable foreign-body case, a gunshot trauma, and a surreal American Ninja Warrior recognition.
A physician who lost his medical license reflects on his mistake, its devastating consequences, and his determination to practice again, raising difficult questions about accountability, rehabilitation, and second chances in medicine.
Emergency physician Dr. Noah Kaufman shares why he left traditional ER medicine to build a direct-pay acute care practice—and what physicians should know before going independent.
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