A resident speaks up about how her hospital and residency program handled physician wellness and building resiliency after the third internal medicine resident died by suicide. She also offers suggestions on how our healthcare system should really be supporting their learners. A powerful must read for all med students and residents alike ...
"At that noon conference, we found out that one of our fellow residents had committed suicide by jumping from the hospital housing building. This intelligent, dedicated, accomplished young physician was the third internal medicine resident in our 22 square mile city to perform this act with identical detail in just under 2 years. We were dismissed to return to our pagers.
We picked ourselves up, literally, from sobbing piles on the bathroom floor and answered our pages. The work did not stop."
For the full article, read here:
http://news.doximity.com/entries/4120720
"At that noon conference, we found out that one of our fellow residents had committed suicide by jumping from the hospital housing building. This intelligent, dedicated, accomplished young physician was the third internal medicine resident in our 22 square mile city to perform this act with identical detail in just under 2 years. We were dismissed to return to our pagers.
We picked ourselves up, literally, from sobbing piles on the bathroom floor and answered our pages. The work did not stop."
For the full article, read here:
http://news.doximity.com/entries/4120720
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