Author Chat with Carolyn Roy-Bornstein

In this Author Chat, Josie van Londen and Brad Buchanan speak with pediatrician and writer Carolyn Roy-Bornstein about her new book, A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals. Carolyn explores burnout not as a personal failure, but as a signal of disconnection from meaning, purpose, and the soul of medicine. Together they discuss how writing can help clinicians process grief, anger, moral injury, compassion fatigue, uncertainty, and the emotional weight of bearing witness to suffering. The conversation also explores reflective writing as a tool for self-awareness, restoration, openness, and reconnection with the sacred moments that still exist in healthcare.Links relevant to this episode:https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/54082/prescription-burnout https://www.carolynroybornstein.com/https://www.mindgarden.com/117-maslach-burnout-inventory-mbi https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-Do-You-Feel/Jessi-Gold/9781982199784 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2308830/episodes/15489603 https://manuptocancer.org https://www.cityofhope.org/about-city-of-hope/who-we-are/our-history https://www.cityofhope.org/orange-county/blog/unveiling-a-new-symbol-of-hopeSacred Moment Experiences Among Internal Medicine Physicians https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834653#google_vignettehttps://suzannekoven.com/book/ https://pemachodronfoundation.orghttps://www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/division-narrative-medicine  General Links:Disclaimers: https://cancersurvivormd.org/disclaimers/Brad Buchanan: https://linktr.ee/bradthechimeraG [Josie] van Londen: https://linktr.ee/cancersurvivormdCancerBridges: https://cancerbridges.org/