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Doctors Are People Too

@DoctorsRHuman

FM doc advocating for docs, med studs, & healthcare professionals so that we can heal ourselves & our profession. Taking gap year after residency to heal myself

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calendar_today17-02-2019 00:42:39

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As a doctor, US citizen, and human being, I back this initiative to end gun violence in America. Let's get this done - Pass it on!!

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What an amazing idea!! The gratitude poncho - I will have to try that one of these days. If anyone has done this, feel free to share your experience with it.

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A physician health program that tells you (& I'm a therapist!) that when you're burned out, you need therapy & yoga (I won't even touch on 'mindfulness') is a lie. You need time off to recover.
Then therapy & embodied practice to support the recovery, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 π’Šπ’•.

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This includes all overperforming, seemingly perfect doctors w/ a smile for everyone...with the environment always promoting self-sufficiency/independence, they could be at a greater risk if they haven't learned to ask for help (or even if they do, there is limited time/resources)

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Today is an important day for democracy in America - let's keep it alive! Get out there and vote everybody!! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ’ͺπŸ™πŸŒŠ

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A good way to track ur mental health. Setting aside things like the system (which could be like lightning, or maybe the rope breaking which sends u down the mountain again), u have full sovereignty over urself so do what u can to keep climbing that mtn

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Thank you Kimberly D. Manning, MD, for your words that paint a mosaic moment of humanity, and for all that you do, and for all that you areβ€οΈπŸ™β€οΈ

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A prescription for burnout: FEEL the rage & use it to ACT. 'Acceptance is a useful stance, but we can’t let it lull us into submission. The healthcare workers I speak to often ask, 'What can we do about our grief and rage?' I don’t want them to accept that rage as unavoidable.''

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For all docs who think 'that's just the way it is:' it doesn't have to be, it's just that apathy probably got the best of u. It means it's time to take care of urself, heal that part of u that doesn't want 2 care because it's too much to bear. Then come back 2 fight when ur ready

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'Maybe everything hurts
Our hearts shadowed & strange
But only when everything hurts
May everything change'
- Amanda Gorman

Thank you Dr. Valentina Stoycheva /STEPS/ for posting. Pain is often the catalyst for change.

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I attended the Alliance for Health Policy's Summit on Mental Health in DC today - Xavier Becerra, sect. HHS was the keynote who spoke about the 20x increased investment in mental health & quoted Frederick Douglass: β€œIt's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men'

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No one is immune from this occupational hazard. Residents, attendings, & esp interns, please consider signing up for this - peerrxmed.com - where u find a buddy/mentor & check in with them regularly. All residency programs should have their interns signed up for this

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Current/future docs, take note. This is how u heal the world. It starts w/ u 1st. In a training system that's not designed for u to be healthy, u have to find ways to protect ur health against all odds, & as u progress always seek ways to change it so it CAN be a healthy systemπŸ’ͺ

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A good read for med studs & residents. 1st step is realizing that u have a toxic relationship w/ urself. Beyond this article, next step is admitting that our environment groomed us for this.Then learning new ways of being better to ourselves now AND planning changes in the system

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Abortion is healthcare. Proud to have been there all day to support this movement. America should not be going backwards. As a doctor, I want every woman to have abortion access if she needs it. Donate here if you can: abortionfunds.org

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I had a near miss on the road while driving 1 hr home after spending 28 hrs in the hospital (was told to stay for AM lectures). I was prying my eyes open & praying that I would make it home, because I didn't want to sleep for 8 hrs on the side of a highway

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