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Texas Doctor’s Craziest Text Messages →

So yesterday I get this email from a physician friend. . . 

Subject: On Call 24/7 🙂

Some on-call text messages from my patients:

“I fell better just hearing from you”

“Good deal thanks!”

“Enjoy your family this week!”

“Well,

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Why medical conferences feel like funerals →

DeathByDespair

A friend just got back from a big medical conference at a fancy hotel. The cleaning ladies actually pulled her aside to ask, “What’s with all the grim faces and sad eyes?”

Do doctors realize medical conferences look like funerals? That’s what the cleaning ladies think.

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Physician Suicide 101: Secrets, Lies & Solutions →

Last week I delivered this talk twice at the American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Assembly in Washington DC, and I also presented it to third-year medical students at The Commonwealth Medical College of Pennsylvania. It is fully transcribed here. Every medical student and physician needs this information. Please share widely.

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Eulogy to My Father, Dr. Theodore Krouse →

I believe we choose our parents before we are born. I hit the jackpot.

I picked an unlikely pair—a radical feminist and a guy named Ted Krouse. Mom wasn’t home much (she was finishing up her psychiatry residency) so I became head of the household. Dad always kowtowed to the strongest woman in the room.

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WHY an abusive marriage is BETTER than this doctor’s shitty job →

Abusive Marriage 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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