“Not valuing time with other physicians or allowing for informal conversations leads to a soulless efficiency and professional isolation.”   John Frey, MD

“Saying someone shouldn’t feel sad because someone else may have it worse is like saying someone can't be happy because someone else may have it better.” Unknown

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.” David Kessler

“Each of us wants to know that what we do matters …. and that we matter.” Gary Chapman, PhD and Paul White, PhD

“Physician, heal thyself.” Luke 4:23 in the Bible

“For everything there is a season …” Ecclesiastes

“You know what everybody needs? … Everybody needs to be understood.” Sherwin Nuland, MD, surgeon, author, bioethicist

“I can't do this all on my own. No, I know, I'm no Superman.”  Lazlo Bane (“Scrubs” theme song)

“We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”   George Bernard Shaw

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.”   Charles Schaefer, PhD

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.” Albert Schweitzer, MD

‘There is nothing permanent except change.” Heraclitus

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for …” Sir John Lubbock

“Tell me where it hurts.” My Mother

“Validation is an essential component of emotional PPE.”    Susan Song, MD, MPH, PhD

“I need your help …” Not said by enough of us often enough

“Whatever you add on to ‘I am’ will be added on to you.”

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not having all the answers, but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”  Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

“It’s Halftime for 2020!” said June 30th