It may seem paradoxical, but Dr. Jennifer Yang, a pediatrician, says she feels more energized to practice medicine after spending her Saturday off working at Tzu Chi, a Fresno-Calif., free healthcare clinic run jointly by a Buddhist organization of the same name and unlikely ally Kaiser Permanente, FiercePracticeManagement Editor Debra Beaulieu writes. "It's been such a luxury to sit across from people today and find out a little more about them," Yang told California Healthline about the experience of volunteering at the clinic after seeing four scheduled patients every hour for a week straight at her "real job" at a Kaiser hospital. That same day, a single encounter with a patient and his sister helped Yang's colleague and husband, Dr. Le Ha, a Kaiser oncologist, counteract a week's worth of stress. FiercePracticeManagement