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Physician suicide: Putting words into action

Joshua Goldman, MD
Physician
July 18, 2018

“The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. ”
— David Foster Wallace in an interview by David Lipsky

Recent physician-suicides and all those before were committed by people; people caught in an organization rigged against them  —  one that breeds new and exacerbates existing, mental health issues. Physicians are people. Doctors are people. They happen to be people who care, which makes …

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Physician suicide: Putting words into action

The first time this doctor hated a patient. And what he did next.

Joshua Goldman, MD
Physician
March 31, 2018

“Dr. WHAT?!” she spat.

“Gold … man. Gold, like the precious metal, and, y’know — a man.” This carefully crafted response was curated and vetted by countless returned pages, and it rarely failed to produce a chuckle. The patient was not amused, and she referred to me, instead, with a disdainful, “Rosenberg.” Every day I re-introduced myself, and every day — “Rosenberg.”

This 36-year-old female admitted for road rash and multiple rib …

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The first time this doctor hated a patient. And what he did next.

Reading about resident wellness and physician burnout failed me

Joshua Goldman, MD
Physician
March 26, 2018

I leaned back against the wall, breathed into my palms and brushed beads of sweat from my forehead. I wondered if I wasn’t crying because I lacked the emotional capacity, was too exhausted to expend the energy or maybe simple dehydration. Sounds from the preceding hours played on repeat: congratulations on a clean dissection, a panicking anesthesiologist unable to ventilate, the sad songs of bradycardia and hypoxia playing on the …

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Reading about resident wellness and physician burnout failed me

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