JP Bonansinga M.D.

THE FIELD NOTES
A COACH'S PLAYBOOK

Unknown Distances

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A physician who became the patient in his final year of medical school, when he suffered a spinal cord injury, November 2021. He spent the years rebuilding, after graduating in May 2022. This isn't a memoir, it's a coach's playbook, and these are the field notes behind it: the systems, the tools, the honest timeline. It's not about how to fight, it's about how to win for yourself.

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A few emails a month — the real timeline, the tools I built, and the occasional receipt. No motivational posters. Unsubscribe anytime.

John-Paul Bonansinga MD​​​​

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I'm not writing from a summit. I'm down here in it with you.

JP BONANSINGA M.D. — UNKNOWN DISTANCES
WHAT'S INSIDE

How you find the next mile marker when you can't see the finish, and why it's the only finish line that matters in the moment.

Mile markers

Pacing yourself on the road back from hell

Why the small wins, the relative wins nobody else would clock, are the only ones that count when the next one is some unknown distance ahead.

Small wins

The measures nobody else clocks

The tools I built to get from one small victory to the next. I'm sharing in the hope they speed you on your own journey back.

The tools

Built along the way, shared here

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Field notes, not a feed

WRITTEN IN TEXAS
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