Public health work is my serenity prayer
Three days after finishing my residency, I became the medical director of the community health center where I had taken my first job. It forever changed, and probably saved, my career.
The risk of burnout hit me early. While I loved patient care, I also found the stress, the lack of control of my time, and the inefficiencies of my clinic’s system hard to accept and to manage. I knew I …
