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 peer-support and 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 record, potentially affecting licensing, credentialing, or medical malpractice discovery.
Physicians Anonymous provides anonymous peer-support and coaching.
We fill a crucial niche in the physician support ecosystem.
Peer-support and coaching are not treatment and are completely off the record.
We aim to reduce physician suicide by 50% in 5 years.
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
Research suggesting low rates of help-seeking behavior among physicians. Yet an encouraging recent study showed that some 70% of physicians would engage with a professional coach. We argue that this openness to coaching provides a much-needed support system and a potential solution to the current pandemic of physician burnout and suicide.
In this article, we examine the evidence base for physician coaching and wellbeing, how to find a good coach, and how to tell if they’re right for you. We also note a caveat around the need for systemic change – a white coat revolution if you will – to address the underlying toxicity of modern medicine causing so much physician distress, burnout, and moral injury.
There is clearly no quick fix to the underlying causes of moral injury in healthcare. This is not a war where a ceasefire can be declared.
So, how do we try to move from the collective moral injury experience of physicians to a systematic change in the structure of medical practice?
