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Neglected Mental Health in Medical Profession

3 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube discussion, speakers share personal experiences of physician burnout and critique the hospital administration’s failure to recognize or address declining clinician wellbeing. Speaker A describes waiting for administrative outreach after noticing a revenue drop, which never came. Speaker B highlights the absurdity of expecting surgeons to operate while mentally exhausted, emphasizing the safety risks. The conversation underscores how medical training teaches doctors to compartmentalize personal needs, leading them to neglect self‑care in favor of patient care, and points out the systemic culture that prioritizes revenue over mental health, creating unsafe conditions for both clinicians and patients.

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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