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Healing vs. Cure
Healing and cure are two different entities. Cure, a medical term, doesn’t often come without cost. It is a medicinal or medical “fix...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 6, 20231 min read


30%/100%
What I’m going to write isn’t going to be easy even though it’s the truth. I’ve experienced it time and again in my own jobs, and I feel...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 3, 20233 min read


Something Bad
Something strange has happened in the last few years. I've begun to hate the sound of trees coming down. It's a horrible sound to me,...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Aug 22, 20232 min read


A Mortal Risk
It's a gut-wrenching thing to watch a catastrophe unfold, like the story of the Titantic-seeking submersible where five men died in an...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Jun 23, 20233 min read


A Needed Vacation
There’s an interesting phenomenon which occurs with time off. If we’ve been racing, racing, racing to accomplish, then suddenly stopping...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Jun 3, 20232 min read


Reality or Rabbit Hole?
Reality comes from realty, meaning, “actually existing, having physical existence, not imaginary." This means that to deal in reality we...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Mar 21, 20231 min read


A Spectrum
It's easy in life to think that things are black-and-white, that there is a duality to everything, and that one must choose between two...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Mar 9, 20232 min read


No Simple Visit
We can’t know what others go through if we don’t know their stories. And some stories, unfortunately, are not shared enough. One such...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Feb 27, 20232 min read


Ode to Skiing
Skiing for me is the ultimate metaphor. When I was a young girl and stood at the top of a very steep, rugged slope, I looked down and...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Feb 25, 20232 min read


Passive-Aggressive Sabotage
One of the most deleterious types of behavior is subtle sabotage. This is the art of the insecure, jealous, often vindictive person planting a false idea or narrative about someone to create distractive diversion, shifting attention away from the true problem (often the accuser) in favor of a fabricated one (an issue with the accused) - which then takes on its own life. It is a method meant to silence, retaliate against, and try to one-up a potentially powerful individual, a

Monisha Pujari, MD
Feb 8, 20232 min read


Clinical Pearl #1
Over the years I've come up with my own clinical pearls which have served me well. One of them which came up recently in my mind was: you...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Feb 6, 20232 min read


Self-honesty
Of all the lies we tell, perhaps the worst ones are the ones we tell to ourselves: "It's no big deal that I'm treated this way." "I'm not...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Jan 28, 20232 min read


Choices Matter
How do you think you'll die? At what age do you think you'll pass? If you're younger, you're probably thinking peacefully in old age. You...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Dec 14, 20222 min read


When is it Enough?
Are you satisfied? Is anyone satisfied? Where do you draw the line - in love, in wealth, in health, in achievement? So many of us don't...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Dec 9, 20222 min read


Conflict
There's a myth around conflict, that it's bad. This is because the idea of having to engage with someone who believes in and represents...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Nov 29, 20222 min read


Are you real?
We are living in a time of irreality. We aren't seeing reality for what it is, but projecting what we want to see upon what is around us....

Monisha Pujari, MD
Oct 28, 20222 min read


So, You're a Patient Now...
Every one of us will at some point become a patient. It may be a gradual process or it may be sudden. The timing may allow you to recover...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Oct 12, 20224 min read


The Micromanagement of Decline
"Lamentation of Christ" by Andrea Mantegna It’s strange to me how many people think that dying is an on/off process, that dying happens...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Oct 4, 20222 min read


Making a Point
A lot of us are about making a point. We want to be right, to prove to the universe and ourselves that what we say and do counts. It is...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 21, 20222 min read


The Gift of a Good Death
How would you like to pass? Have you asked yourself that question? Have you really given it thought, what will be my course and how will...

Monisha Pujari, MD
Sep 12, 20222 min read
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