Reflections on Medicine & Life
0 min read…Hello to everyone who reads this and comments here. This blog will go offline on August 31, 2025 (in a few days). I plan to write more consistently, but with a much narrower focus rather than reflecting on
7 min read…What if Mom Were Alive A couple of years ago, my kids and I visited our local swimming pool on a sweltering summer day. The scent of chlorine and sunscreen swirled around. My daughter found some friends and
2 min read…I can’t speak for Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz, but no one becomes a doctor because they crave the spotlight. We pick stethoscopes over microphones. If we’d wanted to spend our days giving speeches, we’d have gone into
4 min read…About four weeks ago, something happened that definitely wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card: I won the District 30 Toastmasters Championship. Which means…I’m now a quarterfinalist in the 2025 World Championship of Public Speaking. That sentence still feels
1 min read…Many have internalized the positive encouragement to “Do your best!” Unfortunately, constantly trying to do our best can also become a source of the absence of self-compassion. Until we pause and ask, “What does it mean to do
2 min read…“What’s it like to go back to school at our age?” asked a friend a few months ago upon learning that I was in an executive MBA program. “Are you asking if it is hard?” I countered. “Yes.”
2 min read…Reflecting on this Thanksgiving Day, my heart fills with gratitude for the blessings that have paved the way for my recent educational milestone. I mulled an MBA for a few years before beginning the journey last year. Almost
2 min read…Our success as a species is due to our brains being incredible pattern-recognition machines. Irrespective of its inaccuracy and risks, we rely on speedy pattern recognition because it is incredibly efficient. Imagine life without this remarkable cognitive gift.
3 min read…How often do you decide to grow consciously and intentionally? When we embark on any personal growth journey, most focus on improving our skills and knowledge. All our self-improvement resolutions are about doing new things or getting better
3 min read…Since ChatGPT burst into our collective mind a few months ago, it has generated incredible hype about AI. This article in Fast Company imagines a future where Artificial Intelligence will solve all of healthcare’s problems. It will make