by dmackinnon | Jun 8, 2022 | Tools for the Practitioner, Whole Healer
Once you become a doctor, it can seem like that’s all you are. I’ve written about the road to this “single identity” here. Many of us feel that the other parts of ourselves got lost along the way, but there are things you can do that will help you expand into all the...
by dmackinnon | Mar 10, 2021 | Tools for the Practitioner, Whole Healer
We spend our days in exam rooms with patients. One after the other. We walk in the room to connect, problem-solve, and heal. How we feel when we walk into that room is important. Taking a little time—a microsecond—to manage our feelings before we step across that...
by dmackinnon | Oct 29, 2020 | Tools for the Practitioner, Whole Healer
As physicians, we do a lot of different things for a lot of different people including, hopefully, ourselves. Sometimes we are more successful than other times.. In her book, Gretchen Rubin explores how we handle expectations—internal and external, and I found it a...
by dmackinnon | May 25, 2013 | Tools for the Practitioner, Whole Healer
Once when I was a resident, I rotated with a brilliant specialist for a month. He was funny, didn’t suffer fools gladly, and he was very good to his patients. One day we walked briskly to the door of one of his exam rooms. He pulled the patient chart from the holder...
