Meaning of life The DO Book Club, October 2023: Facing Death: Leo Tolstoy and ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ This novella remains a classic for narrative medicine, offering philosophical, religious, ethical and moral dilemmas and attempting to distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil. Oct. 2, 2023MondayOctober 2023 issue The DO Book Club Tim Barreiro, DO Timothy J. Barreiro, DO, is a professor of internal medicine and health disparities scholar with the National Institutes of Health. He is also the current section chair for pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical Universities. Contact Dr. Barreiro
Confronting burnout and moral injury in medicine Regarding burnout in medicine, “I knew there was more to the story than the frustration of dealing with administrative obstacles,” writes Jerry Balentine, DO.
Nearly 70% of doctors in their 40s want to retire in their 50s or early 60s, survey reveals Medscape report finds that physicians, on average, would like to save $3.9 million to feel comfortable retiring from medicine.