Character and Caring

<p>Medical students residents physicians and caregivers have struggled during the pandemic. The times in which we live will transform medicine. These essays drawn from the Kern Institute's <em>Transformational Times</em> newsletter offer glimpses into what we have experienced and what might yet come.</p><p><br></p><p>In these pages readers engage with unsettling realities unmasked by COVID-19 including workplace biases inattention to wellness residency-related stress the loneliness of military responsibility the inequity of the world around us reproductive healthcare uncertainty new educational realities and the imperative for flourishing and practical wisdom in physicians.</p><p><br></p><p>Each essay reveals remarkable insights and reflects the interplay of the world we inhabit with the present and future of medicine and healthcare.</p>