
- The Science of Caring Well
The Quiet Revolution Within: Self-Compassion and Why it Matters
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"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." ~Jack Kornfield
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Essays, book notes, and research on compassion, education, well-being, and care.

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"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." ~Jack Kornfield

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You chose healthcare because you wanted to make a difference. You wanted to help people heal, recover, and live better lives. But somewhere along the way, the demands of the work may have started taking a toll. The early

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In my last post, Why Health Technology Adoption Is So Complex I talk about "actionable intelligence at the moment it matters."

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Is it a Pandora's Box or the solution we've been waiting for?

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Every healthcare innovation founder faces the same impossible arithmetic: infinite tasks, finite time. The difference between companies that survive and those that exhaust their resources before reaching product-market f

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In 1989, I was working on my Master's thesis studying postural changes in people with Parkinson's disease. I had a problem: I needed to quantify those changes reliably. Digital photography did not exist. So I installed a

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When a large language model tells a physician that a drug interaction is safe when it isn't, or fabricates a clinical study that doesn't exist, we call it a hallucination. The term itself reveals our confusion about what

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For over a decade, my primary occupation was to keep veterans safe in their homes. It was an honor and a privilege to defend their freedom to stay in their home safely and with dignity as time and circumstances presented

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Sit with this statement: "The power of your outcomes is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself, multiplied by the frequency that you ask, raised to the power of the integrity of your answers."

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You are working with a founder of a health-tech company. They feel that their idea will change the world and benefit patients. You don't disagree. Your job is to help this founder, this company, and this idea succeed. So

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The conversation about technology adoption in healthcare often defaults to a familiar narrative: older patients resist technology while younger ones embrace it. This oversimplification, while containing a kernel of truth

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In previous posts, we explored how the quality of your questions, multiplied by the frequency you ask them, raised to the power of the integrity of your answers, determines the power of your outcomes. This formula applie...