Physician burnout is real. Physicians burn out of their careers in the US early and this is a costly problem in society. Some analysts believe the best clinicians are the most sensitive, and the loss of them lowers the quality of the pool of doctors left behind, and we need them to watchdog the rest…
Parents often ask, ‘how soon after a concussion can their child return to playing school sports?’ It’s an important question given there are forces such as a student’s drive to achieve and enjoy sports, and their coach’s pressure to return to play faster. Concussions can be subtle, and there are a lot of misunderstandings and…
Healing is not a disjointed, compartmentalized event. For those people who have emerged well from a serious health issue, there are, in my experience, often crossover effects. The treatment prescribed for one ailment left a perhaps undesirable impact or effect on another part of the body. Or the treatment for one health problem opened a…
Sleep hygiene is all the health maintenance that goes into keeping and maintaining your sleep system. We think of hygiene as cleanliness, but it’s more like daily maintenance habits that we do to prepare for sleep and give our bodies and brains every advantage to fall asleep and stay asleep naturally. We are born with…