An Interview With Luke Kervin — To me wellness is practicing healthy habits to live a better life. The skin is a map about what’s going on in your body and if you read it well and take care of your insides, it will show in your skin. Treat your body well. …

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Prioritize self care. As a passionate professional, it’s tempting to work late hours and sacrifice just one more hour or day or week or month for your business or career. This kind of self-sacrifice is glorified in our society, but is counter-productive to actually doing good work. I’ve been there…

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Dedication — thinking back, it’s hard to know if I could do it all over again. The amount of years dedicated, the number of family weddings and funerals missed, the number of weekend trips and vacations spent instead at the hospital on call, the amount of debt accumulated while others…

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Genuine curiosity for learning: Success in dermatology requires you to have curiosity about your patients. I have often been surprised at how often the diagnosis reveals itself once I get to know more about my patients’ day to day lives. …

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Be patient with yourself. Have self-compassion. Skills and knowledge evolve over time. The practice of medicine involves lifelong learning. Be willing to change your way of doing things in the continual pursuit of excellence. …

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Value yourself and your time — Draw a line between your professional world and home time, both are important, but time is the most valuable commodity we all have. Be sure to build around a good work-life-balance, make time to rest and make memories. In this particular interview, we had…

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Don’t practice out of scope. As a cosmetic dermatology provider, I don’t practice out of my scope of cosmetic expertise. This means I am exceptionally trained in elective cosmetic procedures. I see over 30 patients a day for cosmetic procedures, and I’ve treated thousands of patients. We refer people who…

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Knowledge — Ensure you study overall health and understand this approach. Too often, Wellness and Health are studied in isolation — not the whole picture. I am a full-time student in the study of what affects human health. …

An Interview With Luke Kervin — Support — We all need support to be successful. This can be in the technology we use, the people we partner with, or the people we employ. Sometimes our strengths can also be our weaknesses we need to make sure we have someone or something to cover our weaknesses. The…