Should I answer mental health questions from my school or employer?
I’m a 23-year-old incoming premed student. I’m supposed to fill out my school’s health history intake. One of the questions asks, “Have you ever experienced: 1. Self-injurious behavior (ex: cutting, burning, etc),
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Ever wonder why idealistic med students lose their empathy? Here’s a 58-second explanation.
Here’s how medical training works:
Promise to fulfill their dreams . . .
Encourage separation from family, dependency, conformity.
Don’t give them time to think.
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When I see an infant dressed as a “future doctor,” I cringe.
I’m used to helping premeds, not preemies or toddlers in surgical scrubs. How do I stage an intervention with parents of a premed baby?
I’m Dr. Pamela Wible. I run a suicide helpline—for doctors.
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Do mental health issues caused by being a premedical student get better when accepted to medical school?
Being premed is not easy with all the premed stress. Premed stress can be worse than medical school stress for some students.
Practicing doctors may not recall what it was like being a college student with the intention of attending med school.
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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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Surgeon: Hello, Dr. Wible! I liked your informed consent article! When I was a surgery resident, I saw a a severely ill hospitalized man who needed a leg amputation and our attending surgeon and senior surgery residents never adequately explained to him why he needed surgery.
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Just some fun scenes from our recent resident retreat on the Oregon coast. Join our next one . . .
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Candid conversation with Monisha Veerapaneni, a student who left med school to pursue health system change. I get tons of calls from distraught med students and Monisha and I did a Q&A session in hopes of helping others.
0:10 How come premeds aren’t told about high suicide rate in medicine?
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My med school was 5k/year. At graduation, I left with 22K of loans. That was 1993. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston—still one of the best deals in medical education (current tuition is 24K). During my first two years of family medicine residency on a salary of 30K/year,
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If you are a doctor (or med student/health professional) and you are human, you’ve probably made a medical mistake. You’ve probably not received emotional support for the mistake. Maybe you’ve never told anyone about a mistake that still haunts you today.
The truth is most all physicians have admitted to medical mistakes sometime in their careers.
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I just moved to NYC (part-time two weeks each month) on January 1, 2020 to help physician residents who are struggling there and to continue to address the doctor suicide crisis and empower physicians and medical students nationwide. Thought I’d try a little stand-up comedy (just for a fun hobby—work-life balance,
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Graduates selected Dr. Wible to deliver final inspiring words before becoming physicians. View speech, download MP3, or read full transcript below: (the audio podcast is BEST because you can hear all the laughter & audience reaction) . . .
In less than 30 minutes you will all finally be physicians!
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Inspiring presentation to students at The University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine that received a standing ovation. Listen in below to full three-hour event (including Q/A) and/or transcribed presentation below:
Each year our future physicians enter medical school with their mental health on par with or better than their peers.
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Doctor revived after suicide. Here's what he says.
