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Outdoor Lifestyle Is Lifelong Pursuit for Rheumatologist Dr. Mary Moran

  |  Issue: March 2017  |  

She believes these experiences have helped her become a better physician in numerous ways. Besides boosting her self-confidence, she also developed the art of listening, especially to instructors while in survival mode, and has become acutely sensitive to people’s needs.

As a lifestyle, she says Outward Bound opened up a new world that she didn’t even know existed.

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“Outward Bound made me feel like I could do anything if I put my mind to it,” Dr. Moran says. “To younger rheumatologists, if you see a door, open it. You just never know what’s really behind it.”

Listen to Dr. Moran talk more about Outward Bound and practicing rheumatology.

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Carol Patton is a writer based in Las Vegas.

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