Articles on physician wellness, the supernatural in medicine, near-death experiences, and the extraordinary stories that medicine never says out loud.
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When physicians tell their stories—the real ones, not the sanitized versions—something remarkable happens. They begin to heal.
NDEs happen to millions worldwide. What does the latest science tell us about these extraordinary experiences?
More than half of all physicians report burnout symptoms. It's the crisis no one in healthcare wants to talk about—but everyone feels.
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Percentage reporting at least one symptom (Medscape, 2024)
When physicians tell their stories—the real ones, not the sanitized versions—something remarkable happens. They begin to heal.
The tension between spiritual belief and scientific rigor doesn't have to be a war. Here's how physicians navigate both.
Medicine can be profoundly isolating. Here's why physician community matters—and how to build one.
When cancer disappears without treatment, medicine is forced to confront the limits of what it understands.
Emergency physicians face the highest burnout rates in medicine. The reasons are as complex as the patients they treat.
When physicians experience contact from deceased patients, it challenges everything they were taught about consciousness and death.
The intersection of prayer and medicine is more researched—and more contested—than most people realize.
Resilience isn't about being tougher. It's about building systems that protect your capacity to care over a decades-long career.
Medical school teaches you medicine. The hidden curriculum teaches you to suppress your humanity—and that's where the damage begins.
From Waverly Hills to the Old Changi Hospital, these medical facilities have earned their haunted reputations.
It's not burnout. It's moral injury—the damage done when you're forced to act against your own values as a physician.
Patients and staff report encounters with angelic beings in clinical settings more often than you'd expect.
Nothing transforms a physician's perspective faster than lying in a hospital bed and seeing medicine from the other side.
Physicians witness death more than any other profession. Here's what they've learned—and what still mystifies them.
A physician's mental health isn't just a personal matter—it directly affects patient outcomes, medical errors, and healthcare quality.
Some surgeons describe moments in the OR when something beyond skill and training guided their hands.
Physicians grieve too—but without funerals, without rituals, and often without anyone noticing.
What does brain science actually tell us about NDEs? The answer is more nuanced than either skeptics or believers admit.
Burnout isn't permanent—but recovery requires more than a vacation. Here's a practical roadmap for physicians ready to heal.
ICU physicians work at the razor's edge between life and death. Sometimes, they witness events that defy everything they know.
When physicians or patients dream about diagnoses before they're made, coincidence becomes harder to invoke.
An estimated 300-400 physicians die by suicide each year in the United States. It's time to talk about why.
Can prayer heal? The research is complicated, the stories are compelling, and physicians are caught in the middle.
Your clinical voice is precise and detached. Your author voice needs to be something different entirely.
Being married to a doctor is its own kind of calling. Here's what physician spouses need you to understand—and how to help.
When patients recover in ways that medical science cannot explain, what should we make of it?
If you've lost the fire that drew you to medicine, here's how to find it again—without changing careers.
They diagnose with evidence and treat with science. But these doctors have experienced things that shattered their materialist worldview.
Delivering devastating news to patients is one of medicine's heaviest burdens. Here's how physicians carry it—and how it carries them.
The largest scientific study of near-death experiences produced results that challenged materialist assumptions about consciousness.
In an age of algorithms and AI diagnostics, the human stories of medicine matter more than ever.
Nobody warns you in medical school that the hardest part of being a physician isn't the science—it's the emotion.
Mindfulness isn't just wellness trend—for physicians, it's an evidence-based tool for better patient care and personal sustainability.
Patients with severe dementia or brain damage sometimes become completely lucid in their final hours. Science has no explanation.
When caring for others drains your capacity to care, you're experiencing compassion fatigue—and it's more common than you think.
In the hours before death, many patients report seeing deceased loved ones, radiant light, and landscapes of extraordinary beauty.
The concept of work-life balance feels like a cruel joke to most physicians. But integration—not balance—might be the answer.
From Atul Gawande to Oliver Sacks, these physician-authors proved that the pen can be as powerful as the scalpel.
They're trained in science, not theology. But some physicians have witnessed events that defied every medical explanation.
The culture of silence around physician burnout is as dangerous as the burnout itself.
NDEs happen to millions worldwide. What does the latest science tell us about these extraordinary experiences?
More than half of all physicians report burnout symptoms. It's the crisis no one in healthcare wants to talk about—but everyone feels.
Ask any veteran nurse or physician privately, and many will admit to experiences they can't explain. Here's what they're not telling you.
Over 200 physicians interviewed. 26 stories that will challenge what you believe about life, death, and everything in between.
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Over 200 physicians interviewed. 26 true stories of ghost encounters, near-death experiences, and miraculous recoveries that will change the way you think about life, death, and what lies beyond.
By Dr. Scott J. Kolbaba, MD — 4.3★ from 1,018 ratings on Goodreads