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Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, DIMPH
INMED President & Professor
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Feeling beleaguered in healthcare? Here’s hope!
We healthcare professionals today often feel besieged, morally distressed, emotionally exhausted, and on the edge of burnout. Behind these powerful sentiments are occupational factors seemingly out of our control: high patient loads, staffing shortages, diminishing autonomy, consuming documentation requirements, bewildering insurance demands, disrespect from leadership, stagnant pay and reimbursement, and...
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Feeling beleaguered in healthcare? Here’s hope!
We healthcare professionals today often feel besieged, morally distressed, emotionally exhausted, and on the edge of burnout. Behind these powerful sentiments are occupational factors seemingly out of our control: high...
Continue ReadingWhat Is the Influenza Success-Complacency Cycle?
“Doctor, I feel awful: burning up, terrible chills, aching throughout my body, vomiting, massive fatigue. I can’t care for my children. Going to work is unthinkable. How did this happen?”...
Continue ReadingAffordability And INMED’s Action
Cost weighs heavy upon many of us: groceries, taxes, house payments – and tuition. Healthcare professionals increasingly choose to earn an advanced degree. This extra qualification often opens opportunities in...
Continue ReadingAre Short-Term Medical Missions Effective?
“In Honduras in just five days we saw 700 patients, treating cough, diarrhea, skin infections. These people are quite poor and were very thankful for the medical attention.” Dani, a...
Continue ReadingIs Tetanus Even Real?
This month in Angola, a nation in southern Africa, our team cared for a 10-year-old boy. He was confused, spitting constantly, and several times each minute his arms and legs...
Continue ReadingMalaria in America?
“I have malaria!” shouted a young mother. “I as well,” declared a shivering elderly man. “My children, they all have malaria,” confirmed a distraught father, “and one died this morning!”...
Continue ReadingFive Bags of Gold: What will you do with your treasure?
Treasure – wealth, power, influence. We all want it. The desire is saturated throughout human nature and human history. But our use of treasure is controversial and provokes ceaseless creativity,...
Continue ReadingSelf-Care for Health Professionals
Healthcare is a hazardous career tract. The 2024 Medscape National Physician Burnout, Depression & Suicide Report illustrates the perils inherent to most everyone in our professions. This survey of 15,000...
Continue Reading“I Am Hungry! Won’t You Give Me Something to Eat?”
Few of us reading this post have experienced hunger beyond the occasional pang from a missed breakfast or delayed lunch. Yet half of our brothers and sisters in countries like...
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