Success Story: Professional Boundaries

1/21/2013

, I was unexpectedly and angrily confronted in my office by the relative of a patient I had treated. I … by the confrontation. I learned, however, that my patient was jailed and charged with a major violent felony …. What is now apparent to me is that there was nothing humorous about the situation. My response …

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Reasons to Give – An Alcoholic’s Story

1/21/2013

Hi. My name is Steven, and I’m an alcoholic. My … associate director asked me if I would write a short article describing my experience. I learned … in Alcoholics Anonymous that if I do the right thing, good things will happen in my life. Every day for the past …

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Success Story: Learning from the Inside Out

1/21/2013

, and staff. I had abundant confidence in my abilities; even as I remained surprisingly unaware of my … with my personal involvement with a patient, and to realize that somehow, I had indeed become someone I … by the chief of medicine and the president of the medical staff, as they explained that my privileges would …

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Success Story: A Personal Story of Mental Illness

1/21/2013

, I still vividly remember the painful episode in my life. I completed high school, college … at a prestigious institution. It seemed as if my hard work had paid off and my dreams were realized. However, six … weeks into my residency, I was in trouble. I was repeatedly unable to complete my work in a timely …

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A Personal Story of Addiction

1/21/2013

I cannot tell you my name, or where I live, or even … have been deserved at one time, but today my story is one of success. It is a story of hope, of support … and of recovery. I share this intimate tale so that you, my colleagues and friends in the medical field, can hear …

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My CME

11/6/2012

My CME …

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Arguments Against Ballot Question 2: Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Bioethics Rounds

10/24/2012

the policies that my fellow members and I have crafted after extensive debate on this matter. I will attempt … both the patient and the patient's family, and they do so very well. Both my wife Ann and I have had … profession. My concern is that if this question passes, this value will be undermined, and we may always …

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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Arguments For and Against (pdf)

9/24/2012

— beyond the physician’s prediction. “i have been humbled at times in my career by patients who seemed …

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Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Lecture Series: The Arguments Against Question 2 and Physician-Assisted Suicide

9/20/2012

Medical Society this year, I'm here to share the policies that my fellow members and I crafted after … and the patient's family, and they do so very well. Both my wife Ann and I have had very favorable experiences …

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Restoring One's Professional & Personal Life

9/4/2012

obvious negative consequences of doing this; my grades were good, I was in a band, and I was happy … by the student body. I started supplementing my cannabis use with hallucinogens. Again, I experienced no obvious … downside to my behavior. After college, I worked for a nonprofit environmental organization in Washington …

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