Pamela Wible MD
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Category: Medical Education
Suicide keynote gets standing ovation at AMSA →
Read full transcript & view video here . . .
How the word “unprofessional” is used to censor and harass doctors →
Pamela Wible: I just got this letter I want to discuss with my friend and colleague, Sydney Ashland, who’s helping me answer all the letters I receive from medical students and doctors needing help. Read blog & comment .…
Medical school manslaughter? →
Michelle Carter has just been convicted of manslaughter for encouraging Conrad Roy to complete suicide in 2014. “Hang yourself, jump off a building, stab yourself,” she said. Michele was 17 at the time. So what should happen to medical school…
How to stop pimping at your medical school →
Pimping is a “teaching” technique in which a student is grilled with rapid-fire questions (often about obscure medical minutiae). These much-feared public interrogation sessions can be so malicious that the student may be left crying—in front of peers, staff, and…
Inspiring Commencement Speech ~ Loyola School of Medicine →
Dr. Pamela Wible: Wow! I feel like a proud mother getting ready to watch 151 doctors take their first steps. It’s so exciting! When I found out that I “topped the list of inspiring individuals” nominated by your graduating class,…
Medicine nearly killed her soul. How one doctor got her life back. →
In today’s podcast (and video), Kayla Luhrs, M.D., reveals how she recovered from the trauma of her medical training to live her dream in medicine. Listen in and be inspired . . . (full transcription & commentary on blog): “Hi,…
I hate myself. I don’t deserve to be a doctor. →
Dear Dr. Wible, We’ve talked before. To catch you up, I’m in my clinical years now and I keep waiting to feel the same starry-eyed excitement I felt during the first months of med school, when I thought that becoming a…
Tagged with: Impostor syndrome
Sleep-deprived docs disclose hospital horrors →
Today the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) made the reckless decision to increase work hours to 28-hour shifts for new doctors. Here are the catastrophic consequences of their decision. Read blog & comment . . .
A Valentine’s plea for our doctors →
For all of you hard-core docs who put everyone’s needs ahead of your own. For all the docs forgetting to eat or drink all day then fainting in operating rooms. For all my sisters working through miscarriages without taking time off to…
Tagged with: Happy Valentine's Day Doctors
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