Tag: depression
Invoking Caste: Why Physicians With Psychiatric Illness Are Shunned
American medicine has a checkered history in its welcoming of physicians who are black, women, physically disabled, LGBT, to name a few. As a specialist in physician health and a 50-year career of treating physicians,1 I would like to add another group that has struggled for acceptance—physicians who have suffered a psychiatric illness. I argue that caste may be the reason.
The Healing Power of Self-Disclosure in Physicians
As part of my clinical research on lived experience in physicians, I recently interviewed a retired California urologist, William Lynes, MD. Although we’ve never...
Wounded healers
It’s a late Friday evening in New York and Dr Michael Myers is finishing up the paperwork for his last patient as he takes...
Is exhaustion the beginning of depression?
I have struggled with depression in the past. I have been feeling tired at times lately, and have noticed that when I am very...
Depression
The reported levels of depression amongst medical students and doctors are alarming.
The Beyond Blue study of doctors’ mental health (1) has shown that 3.4%...
