#129 Depression and Suicide: Occupational Hazards of Practicing Medicine

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Dr Elisabeth Poorman MD joins us to discuss the natural history of physician depression in residency and beyond. We share some of our own personal stories, and discuss how we can support one another and reach out for help, how to take care of our mental health in an emotionally demanding career, how to deal with licensing questions and worry about stigma, and what systemic changes may be coming (read: we think need to be coming) down the line. The problem of depression and suicide is a particularly real one in medicine, a profession that is, by its very nature traumatic and emotionally draining (both in terms of work demands and also the sick and dying patients we treat).

N.b. This is a sensitive topic. If this is triggering for anyone listening, the national suicide hotline number 1-800-273-8255. Moreover, if anyone needs or wants guidance on available resources, Dr. Elisabeth Poorman has made herself available either via email, private msg on FB or twitter (@DrPoorman), or any of us on twitter. We are happy to talk and see that you get support you need.

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Credits

Written and produced by: Nora Taranto MS4, Shreya Trivedi MD

Hosts: Stuart Brigham MD, Shreya Trivedi MD, Matthew Watto MD

Edited by: Matthew Watto MD

Guest: Elisabeth Poorman, MD

Transcript

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0:17.4	Indeed, there are any in fact there are none.
0:18.9	Pretty much we are responsible for this throughout, but we do our homework and let's know when we're done.
0:21.4	Welcome back to the Crop Siders.
0:37.4	Hi Matt.
0:38.4	Hello.
0:39.4	Hi, Shreya.
0:40.4	So Shreya and Stewart with me tonight.
0:43.4	The great Dr. Paul Williams had technical difficulties and had to bow out.
0:47.4	So Stewart, I think that means you tell the audience what we do on this show.
0:51.4	Oh dear.
0:52.4	Yes, we are an internal medicine podcast.
0:54.4	We use expert interviews to bring you clinical pearls and practice changing knowledge.
0:59.4	Stewart, I think you're also supposed to tell them that we spend the first few minutes talking about work like fit.
1:07.4	And Paul usually reminds them that if they skip that part, they'll be a work person.
1:12.4	That's pretty much the entire episode this time.
1:14.4	Yeah, we're the opposite.
1:18.4	We skip through that part real quick.
1:20.4	All right, Shreya.
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