For Doctor Burnout, Meditation and Mindfulness

In this week’s Doctor and Patient column, Dr. Pauline Chen writes about an ever-widening sea of distractions, including paperwork, insurance battles and electronic records and communications, that can interfere with a doctor’s focus on medicine. And she explores a solution — meditation and mindfulness to help the doctor get back to the business of doctoring.

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Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing

Google Tech Talks ABSTRACT Jon will describe the revolution in medicine that has occurred over the past 30 years that has integrated the mind back into the body and developed a remarkable range of practices for integrating one’s experience, reducing stress, healing the body, coping more effectively with emotions such as anxiety, anger, and depression, and cultivating greater well-being and happiness. His work has been instrumental in bringing Buddhist meditative practices, as he likes to say, “without the Buddhism” to full...

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