This is an email subject line from a doctor. Letter published with permission.
Hello Pamela
I have become so disillusioned with medicine. I do not know who to talk to any more or what to do with my life.
I work one week a month in the ICU.
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Physician Burnout Is Physician Abuse →
Physician burnout is the latest trend among doctors. There are books, workshops, even special breathing exercises for physician burnout. Suddenly every other doctor I meet has burnout. And half of all med students have burnout before they graduate! WTF.
We enter medicine as inspired, intelligent,
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Medical school bullying? Here’s what you do. →
Got a bullier on the loose at your med school? Don’t just sit there. Do something.
I just got off the phone with an old-school pediatrician who shared:
We had a professor who would intimidate us during his lectures. He’d point to somebody in the back of the room and tell them to stop doing what they were doing and pay attention or else!
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How Doctors Celebrate Independence Day—They Don’t →
It’s July 4th! All across the country, Americans are celebrating freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Families and friends are relishing potato salad, apple pie, barbecues and parades.
Is your doctor decked out in red, white, and blue enjoying fireworks from his yacht?
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ATTENTION DOCTORS: You do NOT need resiliency training! →
Here’s the latest medical fad: Physician resiliency training.
Huh?
Doctors are already the most resilient people on the planet.
Doctors can go days on call without eating. I know. I have.
Doctors can go 24 hours without a bathroom break.
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Are you receiving health care or abuse? →
A physician in Texas posts this photo on Facebook. Caption: “My schedule one morning in January 2014. Never again . . .”
Yay! Another physician breaks free from assembly-line medicine.
High-overhead, high-volume offices sacrifice the sacred physicians-patient relationship and perpetuate a disease-billing management system. This is NOT health care.
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Physician whistleblower exposes human rights abuse in U.S. hospitals →
This courageous physician blows a whistle on the human rights abuse in hospitals. Doctors forced to work 7 consecutive days. No sleep. No access to food. Doctor forced to work in ICU after having seizure. Is this the care you want in American hospitals?
Full transcript:
The hospital administration and the national hospitalist company that I worked for made this agreement that the shifts would be 24 hours.
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WHY an abusive marriage is BETTER than this doctor’s shitty job →
A psychiatrist in my physician retreat sends me this e-mail:
Pamela, get this—after saying that I’d need to make up for my ‘lost time’ on production since I’m quitting my job and taking off for our retreat, the Head Suit calls me today and begs me not to quit.
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Doctors not allowed to ask patients, “How are you?” →
Another indication that health care is sick—doctors are being told to stop asking patients open-ended questions like:
“How are you feeling?”
“What worries you?”
“What’s on your mind?”
Today a physician just e-mailed me:
“I am really,
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