Stephanie Waggel is a physician and founder, Improve Medical Culture. She can be reached on Twitter @imedicalculture, Facebook, and Instagram.
At her clinic, Improve Life PLLC, she helps adolescents, young adults, and women treat anxiety, depression, relationship problems, stress, OCD, ADHD, and self-esteem issues.
Dr. Waggel is also a mother, cancer survivor, author, marathon runner, motivational speaker, and teacher. She has lived in the Washington, DC area for over ten years and enjoys serving the community. She has worked in health care in five countries and is overall very familiar with many cultures.
Dr. Waggel works to decrease the stigma of mental illness that is present in our society. She was filmed for the movie Do No Harm which focuses and discusses abuse in the medical education system and has been asked to speak for various organizations such as Public Citizen, Care2, and One Story. Her story was chronicled in the KevinMD articles, “Hospital fires doctor for having cancer” and “The doctor fired for having cancer speaks up.”
She is a member, Postpartum Support International, with a focus on perinatal mental health, and offers internship programs for high school students, college students, and medical students.
Stephanie Waggel is a physician and founder, Improve Medical Culture. She can be reached on Twitter @imedicalculture, Facebook, and Instagram.
At her clinic, Improve Life PLLC, she helps adolescents, young adults, and women treat anxiety, depression, relationship problems, stress, OCD, ADHD, and self-esteem issues.
Dr. Waggel is also a mother, cancer survivor, author, marathon runner, motivational speaker, and teacher. She has lived in the Washington, DC area for over ten years and enjoys serving the community. She has worked in health care in five countries and is overall very familiar with many cultures.
Dr. Waggel works to decrease the stigma of mental illness that is present in our society. She was filmed for the movie Do No Harm which focuses and discusses abuse in the medical education system and has been asked to speak for various organizations such as Public Citizen, Care2, and One Story. Her story was chronicled in the KevinMD articles, "Hospital fires doctor for having cancer" and "The doctor fired for having cancer speaks up."
She is a member, Postpartum Support International, with a focus on perinatal mental health, and offers internship programs for high school students, college students, and medical students.
There has been a recent surge in discussion about men’s fear to work alone with female colleagues in medicine. This reluctance puts both men and women at a disadvantage. Women are being excluded from career opportunities and men are missing out on the benefits of collaboration. As a victim of sexual misconduct during my own medical training, I find the recent increase of acceptance of reporting to be a step …
I recently reported on Stephanie Waggel, the doctor fired by a prestigious U.S. hospital for getting cancer (story also the Washington Post). In a transcription of her whistleblower video, Stephanie describes how she nearly died due to obstruction of medical care:
It started during my intern year of residency. Which, bizarrely, was the happiest year of my life. And all my friends are …
Sleep deprivation and medical errors are not the only issues that arise from long shifts. Aside from being dangerous, working 28 hours straight can teach new doctors that their health and even their life is not a priority. With extremely high rates of depression and suicide in this field, increasing work hours is not the step we should be taking. When I was interviewed by Public …
Since being fired from my program as a result of my cancer diagnosis, I am on a mission to help medical students and doctors. After starting the website, Improve Medical Culture, I have found that much of the general population has little sympathy for doctors. Some find us completely unrelatable. Because of this, I wrote the following comparison between dogfighting and medical training. I aim …
Dear Pamela,
You’ll never guess what happened to me today. Hours after the National Day of Solidarity to Prevent Physician Suicide volunteer web page went live, I received an email stating that I am officially terminated from my psychiatry residency program.
On this web page, I spoke about the fact that I had become interested in this event during my …
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