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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

By R. Murray Sleep is one of those topics where everyone has an opinion and most of the popular advice is somewhere between oversimplified and outright wrong. As a physician, I hear patients describe their sleep struggles and then list off the "fixes" they've tried.... cutting coffee after noon, downloading a white noise app, buying blackout curtains.... without much improvement. They're frustrated. I understand why. The problem isn't that they're not trying. The problem is t

Author: R. Murray Date: March 26, 2026 Category: Family Health, Physician Wellness, Mental Health Tags: ADHD, medication shortage, stimulants, Adderall, physician burnout, mental health I had a 34-year-old woman in my office last month who had been properly diagnosed with ADHD at age 31.... finally, after three decades of being told she was "disorganized," "scattered," or "just anxious." She'd worked hard to get that diagnosis. She'd found a medication that worked. And th

Author: R. Murray Date: March 26, 2026 Category: Physician Wellness, Family Health, Weight Management Tags: GLP-1, Ozempic, weight loss, supplements, berberine, physician perspective Every week, at least three patients walk into my office clutching a bottle of something labeled "natural GLP-1 booster." They show me the label with the quiet hope that I'll confirm what the Instagram ad promised them.... a prescription-free shortcut to the same metabolic magic as Ozempic or

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For months I had been watching my kids disappear into their screens after school.... my older one into YouTube rabbit holes, my younger one into a Roblox world that seemed to have no exits. And I kept telling myself I would address it "when things slowed down." When work was less intense. When I was

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What happens when a physician navigates ADHD — in their child, in themselves, and in their practice? An honest account from inside medicine.

Spring 2026 Allergy Season: What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now By R. Murray | mymedjournal.com | March 22, 2026 SEO Target Keywords: allergy season 2026, spring allergies 2026, allergy season st

When "Burnout" Isn't the Right Word Anymore: Moral Injury, Medicine, and Finding My Way Back By R. Murray | mymedjournal.com | March 22, 2026 SEO Target Keywords: physician burnout 2026, moral injury

This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and Fullscript affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. ADHD and Nutrition: What the Research Says + What We Use

My Physician Wellness Stack: What I Take Daily I have a confession to make. For years, I gave my patients careful, evidence-based advice about nutrition and supplementation, and then I'd go home, pour

Managing Joint Health with FAI: The Supplements That Helped Me I never thought I'd be writing a post about my own joints. I'm a physician. I spend my days counseling patients on exactly these kinds of

What Supplements I Actually Recommend as a Physician (And Where to Get Them) I'll be honest with you. For a long time, I was one of those doctors who would politely deflect when patients asked me abou

E had her well-child visit last month. She's 7½ now, and she has opinions about everything including, apparently, blood pressure cuffs.

I'm writing this on a Thursday at 9:47pm while a load of laundry is running. This is work-life balance in a physician household.

I didn't think it was burnout when it was happening. That's the thing they don't tell you.