Life at the Coop

February is Random Acts of Kindness Month at Cooper! There are numerous studies on the benefits of gratitude and sharing your appreciation for your colleagues and others is multiplicative! We also want to acknowledge all you do for others, for …

Dear colleagues,

There have been many concerns about physician wellbeing and stress. The next couple weeks will be very busy till the Omicron variant passes. Please listen to the 5 at 5 tomorrow night for updates from our administration.

We …

Dear colleagues,

A few miscellaneous thoughts for the New Years. It has been an incredibly difficult few years. It is hard to let go at the end of the day, and at the end of the year, but it may …

Hope does not deny all the difficulty and all the danger that exists, but it is not stopped by them. There is a lot of darkness, but our actions create the light… We can shift our perspective to see the

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Dear colleagues,

This week I wanted to share an opinion piece in the New York Times by David Brooks, “What do you say to the sufferer?” It acknowledges that everyone suffers and that we can be source of solace for …

Dear colleagues,

There will be a special forum tonight for Physician Engagement which you are invited to participate in called “COVID Anger and Empathy Fatigue.” It will be virtual from 6:30-7:30 and will address some of the frustrations that …

As we welcome in December, we can find small ways to make ourselves and those around us happier. You can go to the following website for a calendar from Berkeley and click on a box each day. It will link …

Dear colleagues,

The practice of gratitude teaches us, as the theologian Christine D. Pohl put it, “the giftedness of our total existence.” This posture of receptiveness — living as the thankful beneficiary of gifts — is the path of happiness …

Dear colleagues,

We will host an in-person Graduate Medical Education’s Wellness event next Wednesday, November 17, in CC121 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The focus is gratitude, a topic which should be near and dear to our hearts, coming …