Kelly James

Medical school hasn't changed much over the last few decades. However, the longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, has changed the way medical students experience their clinical rotation year, which may have wide-ranging implications not only for its students but for the healthcare system as a whole.

Five years after its start, the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis found that the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on mental health continues. As of November 2024, about 59 million Americans, or nearly a quarter of the population, had a mental illness — yet 46% received no treatment. The shortage of healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, is affecting patients’ ability to find care and placing a greater burden on healthcare professionals who provide mental health care.

Working as an emergency physician can be demanding. It’s also dangerous. In a 2022 study, two thirds of emergency physicians were assaulted in the past 12 months, and one third of those assaults resulted in an injury.

The attacks included verbal assaults with threats of violence (64%), hits/slaps (40%), being spit on (31%), kicked (26%), and punched (25%). Nearly one in four physicians said they were assaulted multiple times.

When Ellen and Carl Otterness' daughters were young, the couple wrote wills. Their primary goal was to name a guardian for their children if something happened to both of them.

Then they didn't think about it … for decades. Their now-adult daughters are both over 40, with husbands and kids of their own.

One of the perks of my local Y is the sauna in the women's locker room (the men's has one, too). Occasionally after a swim, I will sit for a few minutes in the 190-degree heat, enjoying the all-encompassing warmth and the loose-limbed, boneless relaxation it always produces.

So I was intrigued by the latest trend in saunas.

When I was 30, I quit my job as a lawyer to become a freelance writer, following a dream I'd had since I was a kid. At the time, I had sold two articles to magazines (Cosmopolitan and Bride's) and built a career out of those two clips. I learned how to study markets, pitch ideas, conduct interviews, write to a deadline, and revise when needed.

I thrived on the challenge and the dopamine...

There’s an upside to divorce. It’s what I used to call the “stretch” ― the four days every two weeks when our kids went to their dad’s house.

Not that it was easy at first. The first few months after we separated, I cried every time I dropped our kids off at Erik’s place, just a mile from my own. Eventually, though, I began to look forward to my child-free time. I never expected that to change.

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