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

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

Conditions
June 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 shrug off in your busy day?

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 …

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

Why do doctors treat their own so cruelly?

Physician
October 18, 2018

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 …

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Why do doctors treat their own so cruelly?