Healthcare professionals have entered a field where empathy, compassion, and an ability to relate well to patients are implicitly mandated.

Lives depend on political decisions, and we are all emotionally involved in politics, whether directly or via the media. What is the cost to us?

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. Health care providers are not immune. In fact, physicians take their own lives at twice the rate of the general population.

We think of dementia as the overarching destruction of the brain resulting in an inability to perform daily tasks or interact appropriately, but that’s not always the case.