Physicians are struggling and some are in despair, but there is plenty of room for hope.
I’m grateful to the incomparably fierce physician advocate, Kim Downey, for putting this piece together and getting it published on a platform as widely read as KevinMD.
It was published on September 17th, which is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day.
Many of us are in the arena trying to help one another and ourselves, and non-physician advocates like Kim play a critical role in shedding light on this crisis and being a part of the change that is needed to ensure we continue to have good, kind, and healthy doctors to take care of us and our families and loved ones.
Thanks to my remarkable physician colleagues Diana Londoño, MD and Jillian Rigert, DMD, MD for sharing your stories, to Kim for making it all happen and continuing to fight for us, and Kevin Pho, M.D. for building and sustaining an important platform.
