I was sitting at my desk getting ready to finalize the curriculum for a class that I teach when I was informed via email that the books I needed for my medical residents had not arrived.  Not only had they not arrived, they had not been ordered! I thought the top of my head would explode.  I could teach the first two lectures, maybe the first four, but after that, the next two or three segments of the curriculum were blown.  I wasn’t just stressed; I was in distress.  Distress is negative … [Read more...]