All physicians need help. Few find what they truly need.
Docs rarely ask for help. As people pleasers our identity is helping others. So who do we confide in? Who can we really trust?
We’re often unaware of our own needs until life spirals out of control.
Delays are deadly. I’ve got > 2,000 obituaries from docs who didn’t get the help they needed.
Why not?
Help-seeking too often leads to physician punishment by employers, state boards, and physician “health” programs (PHPs).
I know docs who naively self-referred to (costly!) PHPs where they were treated like criminals with polygraph tests in 5-year faith-based abstinence & sex addiction programs (even though they had NO sex/drug addiction!). Noncompliance = board action.
So how can docs get 100% confidential help without board intrusion?
It’s tricky . . . Here’s what I suggest . . .
Peer Support Groups & Retreats—100% Confidential
I’ve led weekly physician peer support groups & retreats for more than a decade. Many emergency retreats for docs on the verge of losing their careers—or their lives. Even held a free emergency retreat for 2 widows in the aftermath of their physician husbands’ suicides.
These people need targeted help that’s not easy to find! (Attorneys have even hired me to assist with PHP cases. Yikes!).
Need an emergency life reset?
Curated to your needs, retreats may cover imposter syndrome, savior complex, perfectionism, self-blame, fear, childhood/workplace trauma, true identity (outside of medicine), clinical & nonclinical careers (no need for licensure) with the ultimate goal—creating the life of your dreams!
Just leave your crappy job behind & enter your luxury suite. All meals, hotel, ground transport, massage & other perks included. Turn off your cell & relax. No interruptions. 😍
100% tax-deductible. CME available.
To plan your retreat, contact Dr. Wible.
what?!?
really!
OMG dr Pamela
thank God for the support you hold for all medical graduates and practicing US physicians.
thank you for this.
I will forward this to all my medical school study buddies.
Oh yes! Have been helping medical students for years! Many free retreats and scholarships over the past decade+.
Our message of hope for medical students & doctors