How physicians can persevere through their current and future challenges
The end is in sight, but there are still months to go. How can we persevere when our strength has been collectively sapped over the last year, and our sense of grief at what has been lost will persist even when isolation and distancing are over?
To answer this, I’ve turned to three very different physicians and scientists.
Here are practical ideas drawn from their wisdom, expertise, experience and experiments for how to persevere through our current and future challenges.
1. Create meaning
Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, easily ranks on the list of top-five life-changing books for me. In it, Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, explores what allowed some individuals to survive the unthinkable conditions of concentration camps without losing their humanity or giving up hope.