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Hippocrates didn’t have email: Why ethics must evolve

Medical ethics must adapt to today’s digital world. This blog explores how technology reshapes care, privacy, and the doctor–patient relationship.

Dr Corrigan 2025-09-16

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Do no harm—except to ourselves? The silent crisis

The silent crisis of self-sacrifice reveals how neglecting our own well-being undermines true care and sustainable support for others.

Dr Corrigan 2025-09-09

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Why the best doctors are walking away—it’s not what you think

Many top doctors are walking away from medicine. Learn the surprising reasons behind this shift and what it means for healthcare.

Dr Corrigan 2025-09-02

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Doctors on the edge: How we’re quietly saying ‘no more’

Doctors face rising burnout. Here’s how many are quietly saying “no more” and redefining balance in today’s healthcare system.

Dr Corrigan 2025-08-25

The emotional exit interview no one ever does in medicine

Every year, thousands of physicians quit their jobs leaving hospitals, clinics, and academic centers behind. When they go, most organizations conduct exit interviews to gather feedback on salary, workload, or management. But there’s a deeper conversation that almost never happens: the emotional exit interview. This is the chance for doctors to honestly express how their hearts have been bruised by the very profession they once loved—and for institutions to learn what truly drives physicians away.

Dr Corrigan 2025-08-18

What if burnout isn’t the problem, but [medical] culture Is?

Burnout in medicine is often described as the invisible epidemic, a silent crisis

Dr Corrigan 2025-08-11

Physician burnout and COVID-19

Dr Corrigan 2022-03-08

In this article, we illustrate how physician burnout has been worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, against a background of already high levels of physician distress.

This article discusses physician resilience programs that may enhance self-care and our ability to cope with the stresses of modern medicine.

Physician resilience programs designed by doctors

Dr Corrigan 2022-02-08

The idea of physicians boosting their own resilience seems reasonable – at least as this relates to the personal resilience required for being a doctor. Here we present a number of physician resilience programs designed by doctors

interventions for physician resilience -Coping skills can be learned for the inherent stresses of medicine, we will be better able to serve our patients. Evidence-based resources:

Interventions for physician resilience: The evidence base

Dr Corrigan 2022-02-01

The idea of physicians boosting their own resilience seems reasonable – at least as this relates to the personal resilience required for being a doctor. Here we summarize the evidence base of interventions for physician resilience

In this article, we present resources for enhancing physician resilience for the burned-out physician or medical leader.

Resources for physician resilience

Dr Corrigan 2022-01-18

If there’s one good thing about a pandemic, it’s increased public awareness of their healthcare workers as human beings under stress. In this article, we have pulled together a number of resources for physician resilience developed by professional organizations for the interested physician reader and physician leader.

Physician Burnout and Suicide Report makes for disturbing reading: 42% of us are burned out.

Physician burnout report 2021: “Death by 1,000 cuts”

Dr Corrigan 2022-01-01

Let’s talk about physician wellbeing in the COVID era. Burnout and depression are still serious problems among physicians, especially amid COVID-19. The 2021 Medscape National Physician Burnout and Suicide Report makes for disturbing reading. More than 12,000 doctors across 29 specialties responded to the anonymous survey which ran from August to December 2020.