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How Power Destroys Empathy & Compassion
In 2007, after twelve years of training to become a doctor, I left the hospital, only seven years after completing my training. Why? Because, in my...
Coping With The Extent Of American Misogyny In The Wake Of The Epstein Files
After a week of shocking Epstein revelations, the powers that be are trying to change the subject. I’m no scholar in Middle East politics, so I...
The Woman Who Was Loyal To Her Suffering
I'm about to co-teach a writing workshop with Memoir As Medicine author Nancy Slonim Aronie. It’s called ENOUGH ALREADY, and it's inspired by...
Improve Your Relationships, Improve Your Health
As Jeff Rediger and I finish up the final edits of our book RELATIONSICK, about the adverse health implications of unbalanced, non-reciprocal, or...
When Our Mentors, Heroes & Gurus Wind Up In The Epstein Files Or Otherwise Let Us Down
Yesterday, I wrote a Facebook post (you can read it here) about Deepak Chopra and Peter Attia in the Epstein files. It got over 350 comments in less...
We Must Widen Our Circles Of Empathy- STAT!
Right after finishing my OB/GYN residency at Northwestern, I worked at a public health clinic in San Diego County near Lemon Grove, California,...
What’s Happening When Someone Repeatedly Breaks Mutually-Made Plans
Melody and I used to make plans the way people do when they care about each other. We’d talk them through, check calendars, and imagine the future...
An Unexpected Love Affair
I didn’t mean to fall in love again. I really didn’t. I had already given my heart to Muir Beach—the fog that tucked me in at night like a damp wool...
Introducing EAT TO THRIVE, A 6 Week Raw Foods Online Cooking Class, Green Juice Cleanse
I know I’m a bit belated in saying so, but Happy New Year! My big move to the Art Barn in West Sonoma County derailed me a bit, but I’m all settled...
Remembering January 6 (On My Daughter’s 20th Birthday)
I was on a first date on January 6, 2020, walking on Stinson Beach with a lovely artist who I wound up going on five dates with before he decided he...
Is 2026 Your Year To Give More? Or Receive More?
Happy 2026 everyone! I’m kind of reeling after reading in the New York Times about our President kidnapping another country’s President (and his...
A Holiday Reset: How To Track Your Growth & Progress This Yuletide Season
Let me start with wishing you holiday blessings from the 1870s renovated barn that is Jeff, Mira and my new home near Bodega Bay, CA. Because we’ve...