Depressed doctor: “I’m angry and frustrated and lost.” →

DepressedDoctor

This is an email subject line from a doctor. Letter published with permission.

Hello Pamela

I have become so disillusioned with medicine. I do not know who to talk to any more or what to do with my life.

I work one week a month in the ICU.

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A physician quits assembly-line medicine. Here’s what happens next . . . →

A few months ago a physician friend Facebooks me:

I only have 7 days of clinic left. Just finished two weekends back to back so it will be something like 20 days in a row that I worked before I get a chance to breathe. One weekend was “punishment”

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