I am honing my storytelling craft after thirty years as an emergency physician, mother, and observer of the human condition. I will be creating new entries and pulling in some of my published works. Thanks for coming along.

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After Emergency Medicine…

#128 Should Doctors and Nurses Love their Patients?
Dr. Joan Naidorf Dr. Joan Naidorf

#128 Should Doctors and Nurses Love their Patients?

Doctors and nurses have some challenging interactions with some of their patients.  What is we could change our thoughts and feel love? It helps with improved empathy and renewed curiosity for our patient’s problems. Most of all, thoughts of love feel so much better for the clinician than resentment, frustration, and cynicism. Can we love our patients as ourselves?

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#127 Learning to Live After Cancer
Dr. Joan Naidorf Dr. Joan Naidorf

#127 Learning to Live After Cancer

Suleika Jaouad changes the narrative of the patient memoir when she embarks on the hero’s journey across America to seek answers to her fundamental question.  How could she start to live after an aggressive form of cancer hijacked her barely started adult life? Read ‘Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted’ to find out.

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