View the Wall of Remembrance (above) at the end of the newly released award-winning documentary, Do No Harm: Exposing the Hippocratic Hoax, a film that exposes our doctor suicide crisis and honors nearly 100 doctors who have died by suicide. Join me today in remembering them. View full-feature film by Emmy-winning filmmaker now on Amazon Prime.
Greg Hamlin Miday, M.D., Internist
Kevin Thomas Dietl, D.O., Degree Awarded Posthumously
Kaitlyn Nicole Elkins, Medical Student
Sean Michael Petro, Medical Student
Emily Ariel Bamberger, M.D.,Ph.D. Candidate
Jacob “Dr. J” Neufeld, M.D., M.P.H, Pediatric Physiatrist
John Chuan Loh, Medical Student
Gabriel Goodwin, M.D., Anesthesiologist
Evan Astin, M.D., Internal Medicine Resident
Gregory Andrew Collins, M.D., Family Physician
Lara Barnett, M.D., Internal Medicine Resident
Charles Christopher Martin, M.D., Family Medicine Resident
Carrie Ann Largent, Medical Student
William Samuel Brown, M.D., Radiologist
Robert Karoly Chu, M.D., M.P.H., Aspiring Radiologist
Jeremy Egnatios, Medical Student
Steven G. Ortiz, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon
Alan R. Rowlan, M.D., Surgeon
Kim Marie Walsh, M.D., M.P.H., Family Physician
Ross Alan Gallo, M.D., Psychiatrist
Abdurrahman Unal, M.D., Radiation Oncologist
Alain Bolduc, M.D., Dermatologist
Alex Djuricich, M.D., Internist and Pediatrician
Amanda Liu, D.O., Radiology Resident
Andrew Bryant, M.B.B.S., Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist
Benjamin Shaffer, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon
Boyd Dan Batla, Medical Student
Bryan Whitemarsh, M.D., Family Physician
Captain Michael McCaddon, M.D., Obstetrics/Gynecology Resident
Doctor suicide is a public health crisis that claims the lives of an estimated 400 US doctors annually. Given each doctor cares for upwards of 2000 – 3000 active patients, more than one million Americans risk losing their doctors to suicide each year. Responding with compassion and honesty in the aftermath of a physician suicide is essential to helping loss survivors—colleagues, patients, and families—heal from the loss. In the absence of emotional support and open communication, loss survivors may experience lifelong impacts from the trauma that may increase their own suicide risk. To ameliorate these adverse effects, medical institutions must have a postvention plan in place that can be utilized in a timely manner.
After a recent suicide of an emergency physician in Washington State, I led 6 hours of crisis debriefing for the emergency staff and all doctors and staff of the hospital. Need help in the aftermath of a suicide? Please contact Dr. Wible for assistance in facilitating sessions and her manual on how medical institutions should respond to a doctor suicide to best help loss survivors heal.
Performed 3/13/20 at Stand-Up New York right as the town shut down for the pandemic. Show was cancelled so I performed for the random people who wandered in from the streets.
I’m not into long-term parenting.
I’m a foster mom cause I prefer rent-to-own.
I got no idea how to deal with a baby . . .
When they gimme this boy—220 pounds—6’ foot 7”
He’s only 16—and wears size 17 shoes!
I’m praying his age catches up to his shoe size
I’ve always been very open so it’s fine that my son is BI
biracial and bipolar
But here’s the really crazy thing. . .
Back when I was 16, I dated his 14-year-old father. How weird is it to have the hot version of your high school boyfriend move in—as your son?
He’s hot chocolate in a whitebread town.
First week of school—suspended for fighting.
I tell the principal, “Look, it’s self defense. He’s protecting himself from all these girls.”
Didn’t help that he’s the basketball star.
Dunks the ball & the glass breaks.
Feels like I’m in the movie Blind Side.
I had to get up to speed.
I was still on a flip-phone.
Didn’t even know how to text.
I thought, ya know, my baby needs a father.
So I go on a dating site and as a 36-year-old redhead, my inbox is overflowing on BlackSingles.Com
But I’m not looking for a husband, I’m looking for someone to be my boy’s father.
I find the perfect match—a black gay homeless man.
We’re a great team. He cooks dinner, goes to all our son’s games—an awesome Dad.
Best part: He doesn’t want anything from me—and he can’t afford to leave.
He sleeps on our couch.
But our kid’s so upset his mom and dad aren’t sleeping together.
So we both make the ultimate sacrifice.
We sleep in the same bed for a year.
The good news—he doesn’t snore.
The bad news—he can’t fall asleep without a newspaper over his head.
. . . on top of the covers with his sneakers on . . .
I knew our son was having a lot of sex when I found 4 girls waiting on my front lawn.
I say to one of them, “What are you doing here?”
She’s says, “I’m next.”
At dinner I’m like, “You better be practicing safe sex.”
He goes, “Yea this girl says I gave her glaucoma.”
“I think you mean chlamydia.”
Any break from school, I whisk him away on road trips.
To keep him safe . . . in a small tent—like a camping condom.
When he goes off to college, he sends me Facebook messages.
And so do 6 girls in 3 states looking for him.
Cause they’re all pregnant . . . with my grandkids!
I reach out to each of them.
“Look, I’m here for you. His dad did the same thing to me.
He left me. But I was lucky. My pregnancy test came back negative.
He’s such a hardworking kid.
In college, he worked as a UPS driver.
I don’t even wanna know how many of my grandkids he left on that route.
