Mental Health and Medical Licensing

In this episode, we discuss how medical training and practice impacts physicians’ health and what needs to change.

Medicine is a wonderful profession, full of caring individuals who give generously to their patients but physicians when they are sick, rarely treat themselves as compassionately as they would treat their patients. The culture of medicine expects the practice of medicine for others to be placed above all other considerations, even more so when the issue is mental or emotional health. Often physicians are inhibited from taking needed care of themselves, working while they themselves are sick and fearful that their livelihood will be snatched away.

Today’s guest, Dr. Elizabeth Treynor, is on a mission to normalize discussions about physicians' own mental health.. Her podcast “Mind Surfer MD” is available on most platforms and the Facebook community, of the same name, is open to all with an interest.

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Dr. Lorna Breen Law   https://drlornabreen.org/about-the-legislation

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology   https://www.afip.org

Depression and suicidal ideation in medical students   https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/186586

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for physicians between the ages of 24-34).

If ACTIVELY suicidal, call 911.

Physician: To speak confidentially with a psychiatrist call physician support line @ 1-888-409-0141.

Non-Physician:  800-273-8255.

More resources     https://afsp.org