May 1, 2022Sunday scope of practiceThe DO book club The nature of caregiving The DO Book Club, May 2022: The English Patient, Flying Blind and Patients at Risk In its own way, each book examines the core of what we do as physicians, what our job is and where our responsibilities lie. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
April 1, 2022Friday retirementwork-life balance Retirement Medicine as your Second Life: What happens when the game ends? Medicine is what we do. In retirement it is or will become what we did. How will you handle the transition to a non-physician identity? Back Nine By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
March 1, 2022Tuesday cardiologypatient careThe DO book club Narrative medicine The DO Book Club, March 2022: Heartsounds, Echoes of Heartsounds, Changing How We Think About Difficult Patients Heartsounds vividly describes the author’s experiences and emotions as her husband, a urologist, suffers a myocardial infarction while she is out of the country. The DO Book Club By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
Feb. 1, 2022Tuesday Golden years Retiring from medicine: The best of times or the worst of times? Whether we dread retirement or can’t wait to get there, saying goodbye to a career in medicine is never easy. Back Nine By Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA
Jan. 12, 2022Wednesday The DO book club ‘The cost of saving a life’ The DO Book Club, Jan. 2022: Lightning Flowers In the book, Katherine E. Standefer focuses on the rare metals that many complex medical devices require and the often ugly way they are obtained.
Nov. 15, 2021Monday aoa leadershipleadershipThe DO book club Dystopian fiction The DO Book Club, Nov. 2021: Station Eleven In addition to this apocalyptic novel, our new books columnist, Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA, also reviews Physician Leadership by Karen J. Nichols, DO, and Mortal Lessons by Richard Selzer, MD.
Jan. 13, 2021Wednesday DO & student voices In your words Requiem for the written note There is something mystical about the thinking/writing nexus—the direct connection, the crackling intellectual current that flows unimpeded from brain to paper.
Dec. 18, 2019Wednesday DO & student voices Opinion Considering call: It’s not the work, it’s the worry Call is what ultimately wears you down, inexorably carving a Grand Canyon into your everyday existence.
Oct. 23, 2019Wednesday burnoutDO & student voicesDO-writtenopinion Opinion How old are you in ‘doc years’? Due to the nature of medical practice, we physicians probably do not age at a constant 1:1 rate.