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Prioritizing mental health for doctors and families
In 2022, the World Health Organization released the World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All, which recognizes the critical importance of mental health to everyone, everywhere – including doctors and their families. The cons…
Senior doctors must take greater leadership on the psychological safety of early career colleagues
“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.” During the 20th century, these famous words from Dr. Martin Henry Fischer (1879-1962) were often quoted to s…
Addressing the enormous scale of work-related burnout and mental injury in doctors
When a 24-year-old laborer’s apprentice used a chainsaw without training, they sustained a jagged laceration through their left quadriceps. When I saw them 12 months later in my general practice, their laceration was well healed. However, they re…
