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May 2020
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Can We Find Purpose in Our Work? A discu...

ALEX
About this episode

Its on almost every personal statement for medical school admissions; we went into medicine to help people. But sometimes along the way we lose what brought us to medicine. Losing that sense of purpose can damage our well-being at work. How can we reconnect with it and why now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, is that so important? We try to make some sense of that in this podcast. 

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