In addition to my teaching and clinical work, I lead research teams devoted to helping patients and their families have a voice in their care and helping clinicians develop the skills to communicate

So often we listen to respond, not to understand, as Steven Covey noted in his best-selling book, “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” 1 As doctors, we are trained to respond; we are doers, we get

l have been struggling to make sense of these dreadful months in our collectively dreadful modern history at the same time that, newly engaged, I find myself fundamentally happier in my personal life