We are the only anonymous and confidential peer-support platform aimed to reduce physician distress, burnout, and suicide.
We are here to help you. And most importantly: you can stay anonymous.
This is the power of burnout coaching with Physicians Anonymous!
My career and life crashed to a halt after 25 years in clinical medicine. I was at one point “suicidal with planning and intent”. Medical knowledge in the hands of a suicidal physician can be deadly. As an affluent, respected physician, confident in my position, well-liked and admired by society, yet suffering inside, why did I not seek help?
Reach out to your loved ones, and be honest. Trust me, they will help you. You are loved in more ways than you can imagine, because you are one unique lovable bright spot in this world. So stay with us and shine on us. This a Physicians Anonymous co-founder’s story of how she lost a spouse to suicide.
My career and life crashed to a halt after 25 years in clinical medicine. I was at one point “suicidal with planning and intent”. Medical knowledge in the hands of a suicidal physician can be deadly. As an affluent, respected physician, confident in my position, well-liked and admired by society, yet suffering inside, why did I not seek help?
Reach out to your loved ones, and be honest. Trust me, they will help you. You are loved in more ways than you can imagine, because you are one unique lovable bright spot in this world. So stay with us and shine on us. This a Physicians Anonymous co-founder’s story of how she lost a spouse to suicide.
Studies have shown that more than half of health care practitioners meet the criteria for burnout or a mental health diagnosis.
However, few seek treatment because of fear that it would show up on their licencing records.
Physicians Anonymous provides coaching.
You will be our client, and not our patient. You will receive coaching, and not treatment.
Therefore, if you engage in our services, it will not show up on your records.
Stories and science about why physician wellbeing is important for everyone
Coaching and mentoring for clinicians - with the option to stay anonymous
Free support group meetings for those clinicians who wish to stay anonymous
Stories and science about physician burnout and why physician wellbeing is important for everyone
Coaching and mentoring for clinicians - with the option to stay anonymous
Science-based individual and group coaching for hospital and clinic staff
Free support group meetings for those clinicians who wish to stay anonymous
Get Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits with Physicians Anonymous
Coaching and mentoring for clinicians - with the option to stay anonymous
Science-based individual and group coaching for hospital and clinic staff
Free support group meetings for those clinicians who wish to stay anonymous
My fellow physicians, how many hours do you work a week? How many disrupted sleep nights in a month? How does your workload compare to other professions?
I have so many regrets about my medical career that I don’t even know where to begin. And I am not alone. We all make mistakes, give suboptimal service, have off days, or (most often, in my experience), nature wins. The cancer progresses. The psychosis relapses. The diabetes complicates. So am I going to wallow in them and feel sorry for myself? Or is there another way of dealing with regrets in my career as a doctor?
For so many reasons the term “disruptive doctor” is unhelpful at best, cruel and discriminatory at worst. As a label it has been used and misused. Very few physicians start out disruptive. The reality is that disruptive behavior in physicians is often a symptom of a larger systemic problem. It may be related to stress, burnout, mental health issues, addiction, and more.
