Susan Richardson

“The dying don’t worry about detail.” That’s a stunner of an insight from Dr. Nina O’Connor, a palli ...

9 years ago

Doctors deal with enormous stress working every day with life and death. How can they balance the priority of the patient with their own ...

9 years ago

No matter what your approach to the holidays is, I’ll bet it includes some theme of light or warmth — a festival of lights or a s ...

9 years ago

Medical jobs can be interpersonally intense, including major decisions about someone else’s life — and death. Penn’s D ...

9 years ago

I have been thinking more about the time and space in which we nourish ourselves as humans on the job, which brought to mind two ideas: f ...

9 years ago

A recent article in the New York Times Magazine helped me feel vindicated in sticking with my zone-out time. Writer Melissa ...

9 years ago

The work/life balance is one of the first things that comes to most people’s minds when I ask them how they can be ‘human at ...

9 years ago

An interview with Leadership Philadelphia CEO Liz Dow reveals a surprising truth about work and meaning for business leaders. “I’ ...

9 years ago

I was lucky enough to participate in the second annual Junto Retreat in Philadelphia in September. I spoke to organizer Geoff DiMasi abou ...

9 years ago

OK, take a look at just a few headlines from the last year. Notice a pattern? There’s a discussion going on in the public sphere about ...

9 years ago

Is there a temple, mosque, church, sangha, regular yoga gathering, or some other spiritual community in your life that you are reluctant ...

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