Heard this week

"We have been mentored by most of our role models to use a single tool for handling our emotions in medicine, and that is to compartmentalize them—to put them in a box, and get the job done. No one bothered to mention … that there is no box big enough to practice medicine long term using just this tool."

—Dehra Harris, MD, and Anne Glowinski, MD, pen a KevinMD article on addressing the underlying causes of physician burnout.