A 50-year old physician explains why she recently left medicine. Self-preservation, mostly. Candid, disturbing, sad & who can blame her, after you read this? Not the career most docs signed on for. When I introduce myself as a physician who left clinical practice, non-physicians ask me why I left. They’re generally intrigued that someone who sacrificed many years and many dollars for medical training would then change her mind. But physicians, almost universally, NEVER ask me why I left. Instead, they ask me how. They call and email me with logistical questions, wanting to learn the secret of how I managed the transition out of clinical medicine (read “escape”). Earlier this month I attended a conference on physician well-being at the Massachusetts Medical Society where I heard an alarming statistic: the suicide rate among women physicians is more than two times that of women in the general population.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:31:22 +0000
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