In Physician Suicide Letters–Answered, Dr. Wible exposes the pervasive and largely hidden medical culture of bullying, hazing, and abuse that claims the lives of countless medical students, doctors, and patients. Now–for the first time released to the public–here are private letters and last words from our doctors who could no longer bear the pain of
In Physician Suicide Letters–Answered, Dr. Wible exposes the pervasive and largely hidden medical culture of bullying, hazing, and abuse that claims the lives of countless medical students, doctors, and patients. Now–for the first time released to the public–here are private letters and last words from our doctors who could no longer bear the pain of an abusive medical system. What you don’t know about medical training and culture can kill you. Dr. Wible takes you behind the white coat and into the mind, heart, and soul of our doctors–and provides answers. **All book proceeds will be used to humanize our medical education system and help save the lives of suicidal medical students and doctors.**
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The agony of despair, a cause for hope, and a call for change in medical education and practice. Read this and be changed. Reading Physician Suicide Letters Answered was both an enormously painful and a hugely hopeful experience. The medical education and practice system that perpetuates the despair doctors operate under has got to change. This book shines a blinding light on the doctors and medical students who all started out with a passion for healing, and in the process had their souls systematically destroyed. By inviting us to read the agonizing suicide notes from physicians who had reached the absolute limit…
A “must-read” for every medical student, intern, and resident. As a physician, and as the mother of a gifted physician who died by suicide at the age of 29, I applaud Dr. Wible for going where no other physician has had the courage to go before. We measure everything in medicine except the lives of physicians that are lost to suicide. Had my son read this book he might still be alive. The “game face” that physicians are forced to wear drives many of our most gifted and sensitive doctors to a place of isolation and despair. Let’s make…
Physician, heal thyself! Full disclosure — I am a second-year resident in a family medicine residency in the Northeast, and I had the amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as an editor for Dr. Wible’s original manuscript. I was unpaid, but when she asked if I’d be willing to help, I jumped at the chance.This topic is so vitally important and so under-addressed. The public has a very limited concept of what goes into medical education and post-graduate training, as well as the demands that…