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Gary R Simonds MD MS FAANS

About

Gary Simonds, M.D., is a neurosurgeon who teaches at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience. He has authored three books on building resilience in healthcare workers, as well as the novel Death’s Pale Flag.

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Recent Posts
The Risk of Preparing for the Worst
Personal Perspective: We train ourselves to ignore pleasant interactions and promising outcomes and focus on anticipating worst-case scenarios—much to our detriment.
Quit the Suffering Contest
Personal Perspective: Routinely engaging in suffering contests with our co-workers rewards a potentially harmful focus on our stressors rather than uplifts.
The Trouble With Men

Personal Perspective: The widening gap between female and male achievement risks a regressive male response if unaddressed.

Personal Perspective: The widening gap between female and male achievement risks a regressive male response if unaddressed.

The Destructive Nature of Scholastic Sports

Personal Perspective: American youth sports is a runaway train with no well-researched, well-developed goals or plans for maximizing the benefit to participants.

Personal Perspective: American youth sports is a runaway train with no well-researched, well-developed goals or plans for maximizing the benefit to participants.

Retirement: Open to the Good Stuff

A Personal Perspective: Many find retirement a brave new world of emotional and intellectual expansion, gratitude, release from stress, connection, exploration, and growth.

A Personal Perspective: Many find retirement a brave new world of emotional and intellectual expansion, gratitude, release from stress, connection, exploration, and growth.

My Genius for Irreverence

A Personal Perspective: I am a relentless teaser, but perhaps my irreverence has taught me some lessons in critical thinking.

A Personal Perspective: I am a relentless teaser, but perhaps my irreverence has taught me some lessons in critical thinking.

Retirement Blues

A Personal Perspective: Focusing on wellness during our career years can help counter the trepidation and emotional turmoil felt by many at the time of their retirement.

A Personal Perspective: Focusing on wellness during our career years can help counter the trepidation and emotional turmoil felt by many at the time of their retirement.

The Impact of Retirement on Families

A Personal Perspective: Focusing on wellness behaviors throughout our working lives may lessen the emotional challenges of retirement.

A Personal Perspective: Focusing on wellness behaviors throughout our working lives may lessen the emotional challenges of retirement.