Petition to end medical student and physician suicide
Dear AAMC and ACGME,
This week we lost another bright, young soul to suicide. Sean Petro was in his third year at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and is the third tragedy at his school in the last two years.
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Meet Michele and John Dietl. Here they are with their kids, Kevin and Diana:
A prankster and life of the party, Kevin is dancing with his mom, Michele:
On April 23, 2015, Kevin died by suicide just 10 days before he was to graduate medical school.
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April 22, 2016
Hi Dr. Wible,
I am a third-year surgery resident at a massive academic center and a struggling wife… I have had an atrocious year and have thought of suicide nearly daily. Tonight I was actually searching for “painless effective suicide methods” when Google brought me to your article and TED talk.
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I just woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Oregon. Then I got two emails about medical student/physician suicides and this Facebook message.
Student: Hi Pamela. I don’t know if you have heard. But there was a death at our school yesterday in the class of 2018.
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Medicine’s dirty secret. Dr. Pamela Wible interviewed by Dr. LaKeisha W. McMillan. Fully transcribed below. Listen on iTunes or download MP3 here. Episode 68: “Shhh . . they want us to keep it a secret” with Dr. Pamela Wible. (Note: Interview with Dr. Wible starts at 5:30)
LM: I talked about us stepping outside of the box here at House Calls with Dr.
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TEDMED talk by Pamela Wible, M.D. Read fully transcribed TEDMED talk. For more information on how you can help stop the loss of our brilliant and compassionate healers, see Dr. Wible’s TEDMED page.
For the complete and unedited letters featured in her TEDMED talk,
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This week I learned of a third physician who has jumped to her death in NYC. Her colleague writes:
Dear Pamela,
A medical resident died at my apartment building (subsidized housing for hospital employees) yesterday. I must have obliviously walked under her dead body on the scaffolding on my way to work yesterday.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT: Two-time Emmy award winning filmmaker, Robyn Symon, takes on the physician suicide crisis that has claimed the lives of countless medical students, doctors, and patients.
LOGLINE: Medical students and families of physicians touched by suicide come out of the shadows to expose the truth about a sick healthcare system that not only risks patients’ lives,
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On February 4, 2016, I delivered this speech to 250 citizens of Missouri at a fundraiser for a documentary on physician suicide.
I’m here to speak for the victims—medical students and physicians who’ve died by suicide and others on the edge now who have written to me.
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When is a taboo topic no longer taboo? When is it okay to stop hiding behind euphemisms? When is it safe to tell the truth? The answer is now.
This week I uploaded 53 chapters of physician suicide letters in a book that became a #1 Amazon bestseller in less than 24 hours.
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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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Doctor revived after suicide. Here's what he says.
