Doctor, Cannabis Specialist, Health Coach, shares his journey with addiction and what he learned about the importance of compassion and empathy in nurturing and cherishing human relationships. ​

EAP “Ask the Expert” – Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine (MGH) & Education Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (BWH) The term “mindfulness” seems to be popping up everywhere. Many are asking “what is it and why is it being discussed now?” If you are confused, you are not alone.

They streamed into Memorial Church in twos and threes on a piercingly beautiful Cambridge fall day: clinic and hospital colleagues, patients from his primary care practice, and siblings and cousins from a sprawling New England family.

Boston Medical Center trauma surgeon Dr. Tracey Dechert is used to tragedy. She has to rush into operating rooms to perform complex surgeries on people who’ve been in terrible accidents or shot, or have suffered other trauma and the outcome isn’t always good.

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

Can anxious minds find solace working with plants? A therapist and her husband, a garden designer, say yes.

A growing number of programs aim to help doctors, nurses and medical students who are struggling with mental health issues during the pandemic.

Experience shows that health care workforce burnout significantly increases for more than two years following infectious outbreaks. The Covid-19 pandemic occurs after several years of a recognized burnout epidemic amongst the U.S. health care workforce…

I am standing in the Covid-19 respiratory clinic, wearing a gown and a mask and a face shield, and I’m bending over the exam table, earnestly wiping it down with gloved hands and sanitizing wipes. I’m taking care as if my life depends on it, because it does, and so does the life of the next patient who will sit on this table. As I lean over and move the cloth back and forth across the surface, a flash of recognition makes me pause. I’ve never been in this clinic before, but I’ve done this before, felt this before.

Before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, each day seemed to bring another headline about the crisis of physician burnout. The issue had been simmering for years and was brought to a boil by mounting changes in the health care system, most prominently the widespread implementation of the electronic health record (EHR) and performance metrics.

As I write this, we are going through such unprecedented and challenging time of the Coronavirus pandemic.

We all feel so much stress, loss, grief, worry, and fear and it can all be overwhelming, along with new work schedules and arrangements, kids not being able to go to school, and not having an opportunity to see friends or colleagues in person.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become one of the central health crises of a generation.

The pandemic has affected people of all nations, continents, races, and socioeconomic groups. The responses required, such as quarantining of entire communities, closing of schools, social isolation, and shelter-in-place orders, have abruptly changed daily life.

The well-being of physicians, nurses and other health professionals is critical to help health systems and hospitals meet the growing needs of COVID-19 care. Keeping well-being in mind, a New York health system enhanced existing and created new resources to provide ongoing support for those on the front lines of care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What is the best public policy to counter the health risk from the Coronavirus, COVID-19? This is the question on everyone’s mind.

Health care providers need a well-organized response grounded in science and ethics as the U.S. responds to the pandemic.

In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems and healthcare professionals are stressed and bracing for or already managing an influx of affected patients. The coronavirus presents a severe acute care crisis of unknown duration, in which potentially hundreds of thousands of people may get sick, some critically, and tens of thousands may die.

The COVID-19 pandemic has arrived, and we are all in uncharted waters. Whether we are clinicians, researchers, educators, administrators or advocates, we are all experiencing stress, disruptions and new demands at work and at home, and this new normal is changing by the day. Just a week ago, we deliberated over whether mass gatherings were safe. Now, we find ourselves gowned, gloved and masked on the front lines of the outbreak or scrambling to implement emergency measures to delay or manage a surge in critically ill patients.

Some of the HBR edit staff met virtually the other day — a screen full of faces in a scene becoming more common everywhere. We talked about the content we’re commissioning in this harrowing time of a pandemic and how we can help people. But we also talked about how we were feeling. One colleague mentioned that what she felt was grief. Heads nodded in all the panes.

Published a few days before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to spread internationally. Worldwide, more than 100 000 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2) and more than 3500 deaths have been reported. COVID-19 is thought to have higher mortality than seasonal influenza, even as wide variation is reported. While the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates global mortality at 3.4%, South Korea has noted mortality of about 0.6%.

No matter where you live or work, the novel coronavirus means you’ve probably begun exploring the option of working from home instead of a centralized office. (In many cases, “option” is a gentle way of putting it.) Here at Ars Technica, our staffers have seen their phones and messaging apps blow up with countless versions of the following: “How the heck do you pull off this whole work-from-home thing?”