Physicians who Need Help

There is support...

The last few years have been tough on everyone in healthcare. However, since I am a physician I thought I’d share this resource for physicians.

Throughout the course of our training and careers we learn to subvert our own needs and desires. We are taught to to sacrifice for the sake of education, job and patients. We frequently take our anxieties, fears, uncertainty and exhaustion and bury them all deep inside for fear that to express them might suggest weakness, or might flag us as ‘impaired’ physicians and thus impact our likelihood of being hired or maintaining employment.

This is true not only of physicians in practice but for those who physicians in training who are navigating medical school and residencies or fellowships.

And it is also true of those who graduated from medical school but couldn’t find residency slots and who are hanging in limbo, with enormous debt and no immediate path forward to become qualified physicians. This is a big problem that I’ll address in another post, but in the mean-time here’s a link.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/103653

However I just listened to this wonderful podcast discussing a physician support line which is free and anonymous. It is staffed by fully qualified, practicing psychiatrists. If you know a physician who may need some help, or if you are one, have a listen.

I also placed the contact website and phone number below.

Physician Support Line - 1 (888) 409-0141   

  

https://www.physiciansupportline.com/

Sorry I haven’t posted lately. Jan and I were on vacation.