As doctors, we've all had patients who say things like:

"I always get a sinus infection this time of year."
"I've had a bad back my whole life."
"Over-the-counter pain relievers don’t work for me."
"I a...

“Both optimism and anxiety require us to imagine something that hasn’t happened yet. If we have the ability to worry about the future, it also means we have the ability to imagine a better one.”

- ...

As doctors we see first hand the toll illness and disease can take on our patients. 

We see them:

• missing out on work and income due to chronic pain
• taking medications with various side effects
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Recently, I was discussing self-care in our Thrive Rx community. I know the term self-care is thrown around a lot and is often thought of as the occasional pedicure, massage or facial. 

But it's so m...

Something happens to doctors in our training process, we stop listening to our bodies. We learn how to disconnect from our bodies.

I remember being a 3rd-year medical student scrubbed into an 8-hour ...

They say that there are three things that change a person forever. One is going to war as a soldier. The second is becoming a doctor, and the third is becoming a parent. 

While I’m not a soldier and ...

I remember when I got a personal trainer back in residency. I had just gotten married and had gained a bit of weight in the honeymoon phase of marriage and wanted to get back in shape.

So I did what ...

As a new mother, working in the emergency department made me want to go home and childproof every nook and cranny of our house. On a daily basis at work I would care for children, most often toddlers,...