Turn a Kind Eye-Offering Positive Reframing.

This essay describes the importance of physicians using positive reframing with patients.

Mission Impossible? Managing the American Academy of Pediatrics' Obesity Guideline.

A primary care pediatrician casts a skeptical eye at the American Academy of Pediatrics Obesity Guideline. Using back-of-the-envelope calculations, she explains that meeting the guidelines would swamp her office, hospital, and the country's clinicians in a manner that is unrealistic. Warning against the alienation that boots-on-the-ground clinicians experience when guidelines are too theoretical to be practical, she suggests alternative avenues for addressing this public health issue.

Spielberg's Secret.

This essay describes how a podcast inspired a physician's new approach to complimenting patients and colleagues and the benefits gained.

Waiting for a Heart Valve-You Can't Go Back.

This essay describes a family of physicians waiting for a heart valve for their vivacious 95-year-old aunt.

The Last Note.

In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician shares her reflections on final pediatric visits, channeled through her grandmother's rules of etiquette.

Hello, My Name is Doctor.

This essay describes a physician's opinion of why using only a first name can be confusing rather than aiding in resolving inequalities between physicians and other hospital staff or patients.