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By R. Murray Burnout gets framed as an individual problem. You're tired. You're cynical. You've lost your motivation. Take a vacation. Practice self-care. Breathe more. That framing is both incomplete and quietly harmful. Burnout is not a personality flaw or a failure of resilience. And its costs run far deeper than most people acknowledge.... deeper than the fatigue that most physicians can, with some effort, push through. This post is written primarily for physicians and me

By R. Murray Every few months a new headline arrives warning that screens are destroying our children's brains. Then a rebuttal comes a few weeks later saying the panic is overblown and the research is weak. Parents are left somewhere in between, unsure what to believe, phone in hand while their kid watches their fourth consecutive episode of something. I've been in that position. I've also read the literature. The truth, as usual, is more nuanced than either extreme would ha

By R. Murray I have sat across from countless women in clinic who came in with the same frustrating story: fatigue that won't lift, hair that's thinning, weight that's shifted despite no obvious changes, a brain fog that makes them feel like they're operating at 70 percent. Their previous labs came back "normal." Their doctor told them everything looked fine. Everything did not look fine. They just weren't running the right labs. Standard annual bloodwork is a blunt instrumen