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.
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Hi I’m Pamela Wible and my dream was to be a small town family doc doing house calls and loving my patients. Yet I was funneled into all these assembly-line big-box clinics where I became depressed and suicidal. Then I did something kind of crazy for a doctor—I asked for help.
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Hi, my name is Dr. Kat Lopez and I unfortunately know what you are going through if you are suffering in conventional medical training or a conventional treadmill medicine job. I was really afraid of going to residency because I had heard of the abuse that I would undergo.
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So you wanna be a doctor to “help people.” You paid big bucks for med school. Now your life sucks. It’s not your fault.
You need 3 skill sets to be a happy doctor. Med school provides only one—the technical skills. No human skills. No business skills.
The truth is: Med school trains you to be a factory worker.
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“I know there’s a lot of you out there that are feeling disillusioned. You’re wondering why did I spend all those years in medical school and training, why am I hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. I hate this. I hate this profession. I don’t feel like this is me.
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“Medical school is a great anti-mentorship program. You meet a lot of doctors you’d never want to become.” That’s what med students keep telling me.
Mentorless medical students?
I had no idea. Until students started shadowing me. Many also volunteer at hospice and free clinics.
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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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“It may sound silly, but what are the bare-bones requirements to practice medicine? I plan to launch a small, low-overhead, cash-only practice, but I’m having difficulty finding a clinic or physician to model.”
No surprise that this doc who called me today is having trouble finding a role model.
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I’m a physician entrepreneur. In 1998, I opened my first clinic. My malpractice: $500/year. Then I tried life as an employed physician. Hated it. So in 2005, I opened my ideal clinic. Best. Job. Ever. My malpractice: $1230/year. Want low premiums? Here’s how I did it.
A quick tutorial.
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Doctor revived after suicide. Here's what he says.
