Pamela Wible: I just got this letter I want to discuss with my friend and colleague, Sydney Ashland, who’s helping me answer all the letters I receive from medical students and doctors needing help.
So Jamie, an anesthesiologist,
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Med school refugees trapped at sea (& still studying!) →
Hi Dr. Wible, I’m a current student at Ross University School of Medicine (which was located once on the island of Dominica) so we were in Dominica when Hurricane Maria Category 5 swept through and devastated the island. The hurricane was September 18, a Monday night, and Dominica lost power,
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“Medical training nearly killed me (and my friend)” →
“Hi Dr. Wible, I am a fourth-year resident in a combined five-year program and I am burned out. Last month, I totaled my car as I sleepily drove home after my 8th night shift in a row and am lucky to have walked away with only a broken clavicle.
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Why you should be a nurse practitioner (and NOT a doctor or PA) →
Ethan Stuart, RN, sent me this email. I’m publishing (with permission) exactly the way I responded. Ethan has severe anxiety. I strongly recommend those with pre-existing mental health issues consider the mental health impacts of a medical education given the suicide crisis among medical students and physicians.
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75% of med students are on antidepressants or stimulants (or both) →
“Have you ever been depressed as a physician?” I asked 220 doctors. Ninety percent stated yes. Yet few seek professional help. Here’s what depressed doctors do (when nobody’s looking). Some drink alcohol, exercise obsessively, even steal psychiatric meds. Still more shocking—I discovered that 75% of med students (and new doctors) are now on psychiatric medications.
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Can wellness programs stop human rights violations in medicine? →
Can a meditation garden in a hospital courtyard help doctors recover from 28-hour shifts? Will resilience workshops help resident physicians on 100+hour work weeks? Could yoga reverse workplace bullying? Probably not.
Seems wellness programs are popping up all over our hospitals and medical schools to help our doctors feel well.
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Professor tells med students to kill themselves →
This week a distraught mother calls me about her son. His professor (at a US med school) repeatedly tells medical students they are “too stupid to be doctors and should kill themselves.”
A physician friend shares that the same guy tells his internal medicine residents weekly (for 3 years!) that they are stupid and “should kill themselves.” Even bullies other instructors.
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How to stop pimping at your medical school (& heal yourself) →
Pimping is a “teaching” technique in which a student is grilled with rapid-fire questions (often about obscure medical minutiae). These much-feared public interrogation sessions can be so malicious that the student may be left crying—in front of peers, staff, and patients. Alison, a physician in the UK,
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Loyola Commencement Speech “Live Your Dream” →
Angela Jiang: Good morning! As the class Vice President, it is my pleasure to welcome Dr. Pamela Wible to our graduation. Dr. Wible is a family physician and a pioneer in the ideal medical care movement. After completing a family medicine residency and working in different family practices for over 10 years,
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Dean promotes med student well-being. And he’s fired. →
URGENT: ** Please attend demonstration of support May 11th in St. Louis. ** Just received this letter from a medical student:
Dr. Wible,
I hope you are doing well. I am reaching out to you in less than pleasant circumstances. Dr. Slavin, our most valued leader and educator,
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Should you go to a brand-name medical school? I didn’t. Here’s why. →
Is the doctor-making “factory line” the same everywhere? Yep. Pretty much. Here’s why you may not want to attend a big-wig school. Listen to today’s podcast inspired by a letter from this amazing premedical student. Enjoy!
Pamela,
I have shared your work with so many of my premed and physician friends!
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I hate myself. I don’t deserve to be a doctor. →
Dear Dr. Wible,
We’ve talked before. To catch you up, I’m in my clinical years now and I keep waiting to feel the same starry-eyed excitement I felt during the first months of med school, when I thought that becoming a doctor would finally give me a tangible purpose and make me a better person by helping me do right by others in a way that is meaningful.
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Sleep-deprived docs disclose hospital horrors →
Today the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) made the reckless decision to increase work hours to 28-hour shifts for new doctors. Here are the catastrophic consequences of their decision. Here are actual quotes from physicians (de-identified with some patient details changed to protect confidentiality):
“I did my internship in internal medicine and residency in neurology before laws existed to regulate resident hours.
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A Valentine’s plea for doctors →
For all of you hard-core docs who put everyone’s needs ahead of your own.
For all the docs forgetting to eat or drink all day then fainting in operating rooms.
For all my sisters working through miscarriages without taking time off to grieve.
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The ugly truth about Caribbean medical schools →
Dear Dr. Wible,
I want to fill you in on what really goes on behind the scenes at my medical school and maybe you can help inform other students about what happens here before they make a huge mistake. If students slip between the cracks of a US med school,
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Doctor revived after suicide. Here's what he says.
Heart-wrenching photo of doctor crying goes viral. Here's why.
Why "happy" doctors die by suicide
Medical school has killed my soul. What can I do?
Secret recordings expose abuse of junior doctors
Heroic doctor's heart-wrenching letter
How to graduate medical school without killing yourself
Today I lost 3 more doctors to suicide
Physician Suicide 101: Secrets, Lies & Solutions
Female physicians told to sit down, shut up, and get out of the way during emergencies as patients nearly die
Surgeon General's Warning: Medical school may kill your child
Meditation is not the treatment for human rights abuse
Doctors found unsafe to drive home after work
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