KevinMD January 24, 2026
Let me start with a truth many of us sense long before we ever speak it aloud. We whisper it to ourselves on post-call mornings. We feel it in the drive home after another shift that took more than it gave. We carry it into our kitchens, into our bedrooms, and into the quiet moments where no pager or EMR alert can compete with what’s happening inside us.
The elephant in the room isn’t only the system. Yes, the system is flawed. Yes, the bureaucracy can drain even the most hopeful among us. Yes, medicine has become a place where we attempt to heal inside environments that feel held together by unstable scaffolding.
We know this story well. We live...







