Matthew GilloglyCEO & Founder, Mavrix Profit System · “I help doctors remember why they became healers — and build a practice that finally proves them right.”

Neglected Mental Health in Medical Profession

3 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from Matthew Gillogly’s YouTube video, three speakers discuss the systemic neglect of physicians’ mental health. Speaker A recounts finishing surgeries only to wait for administrative outreach about a revenue dip, which never arrives. Speaker B highlights the absurdity of hospitals failing to check in on burnt‑out doctors, noting that clinicians are expected to operate while their mental health is “totally screwed.” Speaker A expands on the culture of medical training that teaches doctors to compartmentalize personal needs, suppressing self‑care to prioritize patient care. The dialogue underscores a gap between the high emotional demands placed on physicians and the lack of proactive support from healthcare institutions.

I finished out my surgeries and then I kept waiting for the administration to be like, oh, hey, excuse me, we've noticed that your revenue has dropped. Is everything okay? And nothing happened.
So the hospital never called and said, hey, we're here. You're having a bad time. You're burnt out. We're worried about your mental health. Because, yeah, God forbid you should be treating patients and in surgery if your mental health isn't. Like totally screwed on, right? I mean, fascinating.
I mean, yes. So, and people are like, well, that's not safe. And we've been trained to compartmentalize since the time we got to medical school. Doctors have been trained to shove aside any personal needs, anything that's going on, and compartmentalize that, shove that aside, and focus on the task at hand. And we're really good at that, unfortunately. And we care so deeply for our patients that we do shove aside our own needs to be able to care for our patients.
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