Doctor Suicide Dream Team (1 pm PT) ~ Intimate group of physicians sharing our suicide attempts and survival. We discuss (hidden) reasons docs die by suicide & effective ways to end physician suicide now. View our free training. (1 hour). Register here.
❤️ Confidential groups curated by Dr. Wible @ $97/mo. All healers welcome ❤️
Register now for your confidential Zoom link.
Emergency Retreats for Physicians
(Session nonrefundable once link shared)
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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.
Delays are deadly. I’ve got > 2,000 obituaries from docs who didn’t get the help they needed.
Why not?
Help-seeking too often leads to physician punishment by employers, state boards, and physician “health” programs (PHPs).
I know docs who naively self-referred to (costly!) PHPs where they were treated like criminals with polygraph tests in 5-year faith-based abstinence & sex addiction programs (even though they had NO sex/drug addiction!). Noncompliance = board action.
So how can docs get 100% confidential help without board intrusion?
It’s tricky . . . Here’s what I suggest . . .
Peer Support Groups & Retreats—100% Confidential
I’ve led weekly physician peer support groups & retreats for more than a decade. Many emergency retreats for docs on the verge of losing their careers—or their lives. Even held a free emergency retreat for 2 widows in the aftermath of their physician husbands’ suicides.
These people need targeted help that’s not easy to find! (Attorneys have even hired me to assist with PHP cases. Yikes!).
Need an emergency life reset?
Curated to your needs, retreats may cover imposter syndrome, savior complex, perfectionism, self-blame, fear, childhood/workplace trauma, true identity (outside of medicine), clinical & nonclinical careers (no need for licensure) with the ultimate goal—creating the life of your dreams!
Just leave your crappy job behind & enter your luxury suite. All meals, hotel, ground transport, massage & other perks included. Turn off your cell & relax. No interruptions. 😍
100% tax-deductible. CME available.
To plan your retreat, contact Dr. Wible.
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Most docs are unaware they waive their HIPAA rights when acquiring a medical license.
The right to practice medicine is a privilege. Each state regulates medical practice by state statute, often called their medical practice act. Most docs have never heard of nor read their state’s medical practice act. Yet when applying for a license, we’re agreeing to comply with statutes we’ve never seen.
I’d recommend all docs read the contract they’ve signed for the privilege to practice medicine in their state. Here’s fine print from the Mississippi Board:
Mississippi Medical Board Application
I bet your state has similar wording hidden in documents you’ve never read.
“The submission of an application to the Board shall constitute and operate as an authorization by the applicant to each physician or health care practitioner whom the applicant has consulted or seen for diagnosis or treatment—as a waiver by the applicant of any privilege or right of confidentiality.”
We entered medicine without informed consent that we’d lack the confidentiality and privacy we uphold for our patients. So what should physicians do when they need help?
Here are 13 tips for doctors who need confidential mental health care.
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Boundary Enforcement for People Pleaser Empaths with Savior Complex
Are YOU a People Pleaser?
You have a strong desire to please others, even at your own expense. You are kind, helpful, agreeable, yet may have difficulty saying no or advocating for yourself.
Are YOU an Empath?
You are highly attuned to emotions and feel deeply the feelings of others around you.
Do YOU Have Savior Complex?
You feel compelled to help others, often at the expense of your own needs. You take on too much responsibility, then feel exhausted. You can’t stop because you believe helping others is your purpose.
If you have any of these conditions, this is for YOU.
Question: Do you ever feel people take advantage of your kindness (and weak boundaries)?
My friend Randy, a family doc, is now in prison after DEA agents posed as patients. Despite his resistance, Randy was manipulated into prescribing controlled substances. His compassion and weak boundaries have led to 15 years in prison!
If you are a people pleaser empath (PPE), you need PPE— personal protective equipment—STRONG BOUNDARIES!
On Sunday, October 6 @ 5 pm PT (8 pm ET) learn boundary enforcement for physicians. I’ll share 3 strategies to enforce boundaries—and the huge benefits to your mental and physical health.
Having boundaries even prevents doctor suicides.
Enforcing boundaries saves you time and money, brings joy and fulfillment.
Strong boundaries will keep you out of prison.
Don’t wait until your medical board mandates a boundary course with license repercussions or (even worse) a physician “health” program forces you into a 90-day partial hospitalization as a requirement to return to work as a doctor. I know 30 physicians who have died by suicide while getting “help” in these “health” programs. Punishment is not help.
If you have boundary issues—be proactive. Get confidential non-punitive help outside the medical regulatory complex that oversees your license to practice medicine.
One-hour session with Q & A is $100.
Register now for your Zoom link.
See you Sunday Oct 6 @ 5 pm PT (8 pm ET)
Dr. Wible is a medical writer/editor who advocates for physicians suffering rights violations by hospitals, residency programs, medical boards, and physician “health” programs. She helps physicians launch independent businesses (no medical license required). Need help? Contact Dr. Wible.
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This week I spoke with a doc who left the US to escape her violent husband, another crying about financial manipulation by her spouse, and a pediatrician who still struggles with anxiety after child abuse by his father.
Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse (using money to exert control).
I never thought of myself a DV survivor, but police were at my house as a kid after assaults between my physician parents.
Most don’t seek help—especially doctors. We screen patients for DV & offer resources, yet we often can’t reveal our pain without career repercussions by medical boards and punitive physician “health” programs.
I had a chaotic and scary childhood. I’ve healed from anxiety and PTSD. Here’s the one thing that helped me most. Talking.
Sunday I’m hosting a small confidential Zoom room for docs impacted by DV.
Register here to join us. CONFIDENTIAL.
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Doctor revived after suicide. Here's what he says.
