• What is a Highly Sensitive MD?

  • Mar 16 2022
  • Length: 13 mins
  • Podcast

What is a Highly Sensitive MD?

  • Summary

  • In this episode we answer the following questions

    • What does it mean to be a highly sensitive person (HSP)?
    • What are some common qualities of HSPs?
    • How are HSPs different from introverts and empaths (and how they are similar)?
    • What is the data that supports the existence of this trait?
    • How is being highly sensitive relevant to burnout in medicine?
    • What finally convinced me that I wasn't alone in my experience of burnout?

    Links:
    The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron (Book)
    The Highly Sensitive Person Website & Quiz

    Acevedo BP, Aron EN, Aron A, Sangster MD, Collins N, Brown LL. The highly sensitive brain: an fMRI study of sensory processing sensitivity and response to others' emotions. Brain Behav. 2014 Jul;4(4):580-94. doi: 10.1002/brb3.242. Epub 2014 Jun 23. PMID: 25161824; PMCID: PMC4086365. [Full Text]

    Friederike X.R. Gerstenberg, Sensory-processing sensitivity predicts performance on a visual search task followed by an increase in perceived stress, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 496-500, ISSN 0191-8869. [Abstract]

    Morning Report (NEJM, 2017) by Sonia Singh MD
    Open Letter to a Burned Out Intern (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020) by Sonia Singh MD

    Contact:
    Email: soniasingh@junipermodernprimarycare.com
    Instagram: @soniasinghMD
    Twitter: @soniasinghMD

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