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Stoicism for Healthcare Students: 6 Practices for Handling Setbacks Without Burning Out
Dr. T-Michael Dougherty explains how Stoicism can help students in medical, nursing, PT, and other demanding healthcare programs respond to setbacks with more clarity and less self-defeat. This episode focuses on practical ways to handle criticism, failed checkoffs, unclear expectations, and overwhelming schedules while still protecting your health, relationships, and sense of purpose. He also reviews the limited research on stoicism training in healthcare education and shows where these ideas can be useful as practices, not guarantees.
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