Clinicians on coping with constant time pressure in healthcare Clinicians across specialties and career stages face the same relentless reality: there is never enough time. I'm working on a feature that explores how doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals are learning to make peace with that constraint rather than chasing yet another round of “productivity hacks.” The story takes a clear-eyed look at daily practice in an overburdened, bureaucratic system and asks a different question: if the time pressure isn’t going away, how do you work, think, and live well anyway? I’m looking to interview physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who have developed realistic, humane ways to cope with chronic time scarcity without lowering standards of care. I’m especially interested in insights around mindset, boundaries, decision-making, and “temporal autonomy,” in other words, how feeling more in control of your time can reduce stress even when the clock is unforgiving. This will be a reported, narrative feature, not a list of tips, and not a “go faster” story, but a thoughtful, sympathetic piece aimed at helping clinicians feel more at peace with the reality of their work as it exists today.