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“I am an old guy, you know, I am kinda set in my ways” This is the refrain I get from so many of my patients when I talk about changing some part of their diet/lifestyle/habits. And I get it. As a man in my mid 30’s (still hanging on until I have to say late 30’s!) who is confused and angered by most new music and media, I understand not wanting to make changes to what has worked.

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“I have never smiled at one of these before” These were the words from one of the participants in a past workshop I put on for healthcare professionals, teaching them how comedy can make them better at communication, empathy, and just creating a healthcare experience that doesn’t suck so much. The words came from a pharmacist, and while it may be surprising to some, it came as no shock to me.

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I’m just gonna play it safe. I’ll just take the sure thing. I went with the sure bet. These phrases are all just similar ways to express the same desire to not take too many chances, lest something bad might happen. And, in many instances, taking the “on paper” safe path is probably the right call.

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Leaving my steady government job last year was scary enough from a “doing the actual job” perspective. A new EHR to learn. A new set of patients to learn. A new set of insurance issues (ok, dealing with insurance at ALL since I had been in a single payer system). But beyond the mechanics of a new job, came leaving the relationships I had built up over a decade. In my mid 30’s, for the 1st time since college, I would have to make new friends in a whole new and different environment.

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Pre kids, my wife and I were on a quest to visit every big league ballpark that we were rapidly making progress on in our DINK (dual income, no kids) life. Not that life is about checking boxes, but we had time and resources to travel widely. And the cool thing about my wife’s idea of visiting every Major League Baseball stadium is that we would use it as an excuse to visit friends, family, and cool places we may not have otherwise gone.