Clinician who sought mental health help shares journey

The struggle clinicians face in helping their patients, performing their required paperwork and maintaining a family life, all while maintaining mental and emotional health, while not new, has grown more challenging in recent years.
As early as 1964, researchers studied this ongoing battle, providing limited details in the American Journal of Psychiatry of a clinician who took multiple narcotics as he dealt with problems at home and work.
More recently, a 2017 study in the Annals of Family Medicine concluded primary care physicians spend almost 6 hours a day on (Read more...)

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