Physician Burnout
Essays and Events
The Last Day
An Essay
The Note
An Essay
Lived Experience with Suicidality with Dr. Myers and Dr. Lynes.
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Available Online
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The room was cold and dark as I entered my office that last day. My diploma shone as a damaged image as I pondered the tragic plan. . . .
In The Last Day, I chronicle my last day of medical practice and the reasons for my departure from the noble profession of medicine.
Physician Burnout/Suicide--Podcast
/Suicide--Podcast
Addressed to Dr. Lynes, The Note sat menacingly in my inbox like a distress signal ominously blinking on a battered ocean coast. The note was in the form of a postcard, the border delicately decorated with flowers, the writing neatly filling the page.
“You are a devious character… the note went on to explain.”
I am a physician, practicing a noble profession of merit. In The Note, I detail the last days of my medical practice. This profession is in many ways broken. Let us fix and repair what is obviously a broken jewel.
"As part of my clinical research on lived experience in physicians, I recently interviewed a retired California urologist, William Lynes, MD. Although we’ve never met in person, we’ve communicated a lot over the internet this past year."
"He reached out to me last May about ways in which we might collaborate in the field of physician health, specifically addressing burnout, depression, and suicidality in doctors."
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Physician, Author, Physician Burnout Advocate, and Speaker.