Dr. Kieran Allen

Kieran Allen is a psychiatry registrar in Australia. He can be reached on Twitter @kidsankyran.

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Conditions and diseases

This physician has a mental illness. And one day, he might be your doctor.

Dr. Kieran Allen

June 14, 2019Jun 14, 2019

Did you feel that? That little jolt in your stomach as you clicked on the headline? Perhaps, your muscles tensed for just a moment? Maybe your heart skipped a beat. What was that? An insignificant flutter? A meaningless moment to…

Perhaps that fleeting feeling is explained by the stigma known all too well to sufferers of chronic mental illnesses. Stigma is fuelled by our fears …

Physician voices

Why do doctors treat their own so cruelly?

Dr. Kieran Allen

October 18, 2018Oct 18, 201823

Medicine has created a culture where public embarrassment, bullying, and passive-aggression have become pedagogy. How can we seek to care for others, when we treat our own so cruelly? I recently met Angie (name changed), a young university student who…

Medicine has created a culture where public embarrassment, bullying, and passive-aggression have become pedagogy. How can we seek to care for others, when we treat our own so cruelly?

I recently met Angie (name changed), a young university student who had entered the clinical years of medical school. Like many, she was introduced to medicine as a naive, excited teen immediately out of high school — a high achiever with the …