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My friend used to be a plastic surgeon. He used to be rich and famous. He was in San Diego and got turned over to the medical board. He could have killed himself.
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How one simple question saved a surgeon’s life →
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Protected: Urgent Need to Address Unsafe Neurosurgery Residencies →
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Doctors & Domestic Violence →
This week I spoke with a doc who left the US to escape her violent husband, another crying about financial manipulation by her spouse, and a pediatrician who still struggles with anxiety after child abuse by his father.
Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive physical,
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Medical mistakes—how to heal guilt, shame, and self-blame →
Late last night I got this email: “Hello I am a nurse struggling with a medical error that may have led to a patient death and I need support.”
I texted her:
I called her just after midnight.
I asked how she found me.
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Hospital fines doctors for keeping patients healthy →
Hospital taxes doctors for keeping patients healthy.
To care for patients in the hospital, docs have to be on staff and pay yearly dues. I was paying $300/year. Then I got a bill for $700. Why? I only had one patient in the hospital last year.
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Can’t pay your hospital bills? Call 1-800-U-R-FUCKED (Seriously) →
Can’t pay your hospital bills?
Call 1-800-U-R-FUCKED (1-800-873-8253).
Seriously.
This is my Catholic hospital.
“Thank you for calling PeaceHealth Patient Financial Services. To make a payment, request an itemized bill, hear your last payment, or check your balance, press one .
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Trauma Amnesia →
Trauma amnesia is when your brain blocks a trauma (suddenly recalled later). Two example: 1) I called a retired surgeon for details on a surgeon suicide from 20 years ago. After we spoke, he suddenly recalled 6 more doctor suicides; 2)Writing my memoir I suddenly recalled for the first time in 36 years,
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Autopsy of an Assassin: 60 years ago JFK was shot. My stepmom identified his killer. →
Winter break during my first year in college, I was introduced to my new stepmom Linda, a forensic pathologist who specialized in child homicide cases. Her interests may have been too gory for some kids. For me she was never the “wicked” stepmother. She became my loving second mom, my medical mentor—and my hero.
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Doctor Buys Patients Gym Memberships →
Fear and isolation have led to alarming rates of anxiety, depression—even suicides—in our community and exercise is a great way to shed ‘pandemic pounds,’ improve mental health, and combat social withdrawal—all while supporting a local business—a win-win for everyone.
So I’m announcing a philanthropic community partnership with IN Shape Fitness to help combat the devastating physical,
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Are Burnout and Medical Errors Among US Surgeons a Major Problem? →
Surgeons are not Navy SEALs and should not be trained or treated like frontline special forces.
We must remember surgeon burnout when we are addressing health worker burnout. Surgeons suffer burnout more than most other medical specialties.
I’m Dr. Pamela Wible and I run a free doctor suicide helpline.
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Quitting Medical Residency | Quitting Residency During Intern Year & After →
Quitting Medical Residency: Quitting Residency During Intern Year And After. Is it possible to quit residency and still work as a doctor or get another job outside clinical medicine?
What happens when a medical resident quits their job? When a future doctor walks away from a residency program—is that the end of their medical career?
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Perfectionism is deadly. How to heal from a medical mistake. →
In memory of Kaitlyn Elkins, a “successful” medical student at the top of her class, who died by suicide due to perfectionism, loneliness & untreated depression.
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Physician Support Groups—Sundays →
Physician Support Groups | Physician Wellness Retreats
Physician Trauma Recovery (2 pm EST) ~ Heal from suicidal thoughts, childhood or residency abuse & more. (2 hr). 
Pandemic Healing (4 pm EST) ~ Get help for long haul, job loss,
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Morton Krouse—the Ralph Nader of medicine (& the man behind my dreams) →
I believe life is a spiritual relay race. We inherit the unlived dreams of our ancestors. Uncle Morty was born 1 week after me & exactly 50 years before—so we’re Sagittarius soulmates! My visionary uncle is the ancestral energy that fuels my passion for healing. Uncle Morty is the Ralph Nader of medicine &
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