The Denver Department of Parks and Recreation and its Pickleball Advisory Board have identified potential sites for new pickleball courts after plans to install and expand courts at Congress Park and Sloan's Lake Park were canceled.
My name is Deborah Saint-Phard. I am a Black woman physician who works in a medical academic department and who founded and directs a women’s sports medicine program. And I live at the intersection of physician burnout, the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism.
In 2016, during my annual review with my chairperson, I stated point-blank, “I cannot think about stress fractures anymore.” Since this had been my clinical area of expertise for more than two decades, that pronouncement was a bit surprising to us both. Instead, I wanted to work on emotional stress fractures, also known as burnout.
In May 2018, I convened a two-day conference in the Colorado mountains for physicians, physicians’ assistants, nurses, CEOs and hospital administrators to learn about this urgent concern. I read articles and presented grand rounds locally and keynotes regionally on this topic; attended local, regional and national conferences on physician health; joined committees on physician resilie