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In my parents’ empty house, I finally found the space to grieve

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By Jay Baruch
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
The table that had been just inside the front door is gone when I enter my parents' house. Gone too are the bunches of keys, boxes of insulin syringes, stacks of bills, and photos of the kindergarteners my mother taught. Pushing through the front door of the now-empty house, I am shocked by the emptiness.
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Listening is Good Medicine

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By Jay Baruch
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Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! The belly is so bad that Mrs. Alves, a woman in her 40s, is worming uncomfortably on the E.R. stretcher. “I need an answer,” she says. I promise her that pain medicine is on the way. What I can’t promise her — despite countless tests and specialists’ opinions already on record — is the definitive answer. The diagnosis, the root cause of her symptoms, proves elusive. But her distress is real.
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I’m an ER Doctor. Here’s What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Medical Burnout Crisis.

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By Jay Baruch
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Doctors are at a breaking point. But we’re misdiagnosing the real problem. Welcome to State of Mind, a section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter. This article is co-published with Zócalo Public Square. In early 2020, weeks before COVID changed our lives, I sat uneasily with a dear medical school friend listening to a panel of experts discuss burnout, moral injury, and wellness.
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