New Day, New Story

It has been a long break. I haven’t paid sufficient attention to my website in some time. As always, there’s a story. Just after my last book, Back Side Of A Hurricane, came out, I was diagnosed with a serious health problem that made marketing a book seem not so important. Not surprisingly, the book…

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Be Still

In my talk in Charleston a little more than a week ago, I spoke about a four-part prescription to help medical students avoid burnout.  Well, although burnout affects medical students more than other similar-aged young adults, it is a threat for us all.  One element of the prescription involves mindfulness, which involves stopping what you’re…

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Every Picture Tells A Story

Stories are with us always, in everything we do, I think, and for me, that has been particularly true these last few months, as I teach my class to premedical students about the power of narrative, and as I work on final production of my second novel, Back Side Of A Hurricane. For the past…

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