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How to Reduce the Weight of Patient Burnout
March 5, 2023

How to Reduce the Weight of Patient Burnout

While chronic illness is hard, even navigating our healthcare system as a relatively healthy person is exhausting. A few ideas come to mind when I consider how to reduce the feelings of burnout.

Cancer Prevention Awareness: Protection Against HPV
February 17, 2023

Cancer Prevention Awareness: Protection Against HPV

Most sexually active Americans will not develop cancer from an HPV infection. However, it’s worth minimizing your risk through a few simple precautions.

The Rx Games: How to Win at the Pharmacy
February 7, 2023

The Rx Games: How to Win at the Pharmacy

It often feels like you have the no-win choice of either selecting a plan with great pharmacy benefits and super high monthly payments and/or deductibles or reasonable deductibles and payments with somewhat lousy pharmacy coverage.

Seasonal Affective Disorder: Common Struggles and How to Solve Them
January 30, 2023

Seasonal Affective Disorder: Common Struggles and How to Solve Them

We’ll give you the good news first: January has *finally* come to a close, which puts us one month closer to spring. The not-as-good news: February is notorious for bringing along gnarly weather, prolonging – and even intensifying – the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder. If gray days, early sunsets, and frigid temps are getting you down, consult our guide for assuaging some of the symptoms of SAD.

Donate Blood, Save Lives (It Did Mine!)
January 16, 2023

Donate Blood, Save Lives (It Did Mine!)

National Blood Donation Month brings crucial awareness to this life-saving practice.

Break the Glass If You Need Tips for Managing Social Anxiety This Holiday Week
December 24, 2022

Break the Glass If You Need Tips for Managing Social Anxiety This Holiday Week

Are you ready to break the glass and employ some of our favorite methods of managing social anxiety?

How Gratitude Can Make You Healthier (and Happier, too)
December 20, 2022

How Gratitude Can Make You Healthier (and Happier, too)

We love a fun and meaningful gift guide, which is why we made a special one for you this year. It’s free, good for you, and the gift that keeps on giving: a gratitude practice.

Are You Suffering From Long-COVID?
December 7, 2022

Are You Suffering From Long-COVID?

While the pandemic has felt like an eternity, only now, almost three years in, are we seeing just how long a single COVID case can last.

What to Know About the ‘Tripledemic’
November 18, 2022

What to Know About the ‘Tripledemic’

By now you’ve probably heard the term ‘tripledemic,’ the (deeply) unsettling term referring to the three illnesses of the moment: COVID-19, the flu and RSV. This trifecta has hit just in time for the holiday season, a Grinch-like gift that has everyone on edge.

To Know or Not to Know: It’s Not A Question
November 7, 2022

To Know or Not to Know: It’s Not A Question

We all do what we need to survive, which sometimes means not knowing everything. Other capable people can carry the heavy pieces of information that are not essential to know as a patient – healthcare professionals, caretakers, family members, friends, and sherpas can hold them for the short or long term.

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