Kenneth Scott Burnham, DO
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I have intubated people who intentionally overdosed on many things they could find. I have sat with families in the minutes after we lost someone who didn't have to be lost. I have written discharge summaries for patients I worried…
I have intubated people who intentionally overdosed on many things they could find. I have sat with families in the minutes after we lost someone who didn’t have to be lost. I have written discharge summaries for patients I worried about the moment they walked out the door.
For twenty-three years, I was the doctor on the other side of the crisis. Then I wasn’t.
It didn’t arrive the way emergencies do: …
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Physician mental health and the shame of asking for help
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An excerpt from Lifeline: What To Do After A Mental Health Crisis. I have spent over two decades in emergency medicine. I know what a mental health crisis looks like. I know the clinical signs, the language, the interventions. I…
An excerpt from Lifeline: What To Do After A Mental Health Crisis.
I have spent over two decades in emergency medicine. I know what a mental health crisis looks like. I know the clinical signs, the language, the interventions. I have initiated more psychiatric holds than I can count, written discharge summaries for people leaving my ER with a handful of pamphlets and a follow-up appointment I quietly hoped they …
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Physician depression doesn’t always look like depression
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I have intubated people who took every pill they could find. I have told families, in bare conference rooms, that the person they brought in barely made it. I have done this across 23 years in emergency medicine, thousands of…
I have intubated people who took every pill they could find. I have told families, in bare conference rooms, that the person they brought in barely made it. I have done this across 23 years in emergency medicine, thousands of cases, in every configuration of crisis the human mind can produce, and I believed, the way physicians are trained to believe, that stabilizing the crisis was the job. That what …
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The real work starts after a mental health crisis
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