Gastroenterologist Andrew Bryant’s active, social and positive exterior gave no hint of the depression he was suffering. Days after his tragic death his wife Susan wrote an email making it clear she and her adult children were not ashamed of the way he died. It went viral (CW: suicide) — Read on http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/doctors-suicide-susan-bryant-andrew-bryant/13335414
Tag Archives: depression
“I was trapped in this darkness”
https://t.co/6nsFyHlJcL @NightShiftMD hi from Aus a warts and all advocacy for mental well being — Geoff Toogood (@gdtoogood) October 14, 2018
Self definition
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Time to cry and reflect. True story, not fictionalised
Doctors’ wellbeing: learning from Richard’s death … Dr Kate Harding writes in #MJAInSight … "Colleagues are hit hard by the loss of a doctor … to #suicide … remorse and guilt that I feel as Richard’s wife are felt by his friends & workmates too https://t.co/DH5HX1tJta pic.twitter.com/yZl9OV6bjg — MJA (@theMJA) May 13, 2018
How to remain a doctor?
Heart-rending stuff. "What I am pondering is how to remain in medicine. The fear of a complaint looms large, given the consequences for my husband, one of the best doctors I have known. How to remain a doctor, when I couldn’t even keep my husband alive?"https://t.co/4bIxqYbxyM — Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) February 24, 2018
Why are doctors killing themselves?
Why are doctors killing themselves and what can we do about it? Dr @annemalatt writes in #MJAInSight https://t.co/NzT6DjM4Ki #RUOK pic.twitter.com/Sb27SPZLk3 — MJA (@theMJA) June 11, 2017
Physician depression and Suicidality
https://t.co/nRpIF46Ssi – Emergency Medicine EducationemDocs Wellness: Part I – Physician Depression and Suicidality https://t.co/kBpl3p324W — Minh Le Cong (@ketaminh) May 7, 2017
Suicide rate amongst Nurses
Suicide rates amongst Nurses. Its worse than you think.#FOANed #FOAMed https://t.co/r9RH2Ffxo3 — Ian Miller (@theNursePath) April 9, 2017
Danger, Breakdown ahead
This is the final post of three I’ve been writing about my breakdown at work. The other two, When the Plates Came Crashing Down and The Joy of a Broken Toy, covered how my breakdown felt and the process of getting back to work but this blog will cover how I felt leading up to […]Continue reading “Danger, Breakdown ahead”
Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2017: Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Anesthesiologists Take Lead As Ketamine Clinics Proliferate
Anesthesiologists are opening private clinics for off-label infusions of ketamine for depression https://t.co/t5AxZ009DS #anesthesianews — Anesthesiology News (@anesthesianews) December 3, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Major trial of ketamine treatment of depression to start in 2016 in Australia!
Major #ketamine treatment trial to start in 2016 https://t.co/xMJIQBmyLz — Black Dog Institute (@blackdoginst) November 9, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Ketamine (INN) Update Review Report Agenda item 6.1 Expert Committee on Drug Dependence Thirty-seventh Meeting Geneva, 16-20 November 2015
Ketamine officially recognised by WHO for antidepressant and anti-seizure properties
ER Goddess: Suffering in Silence No More
Here it is- a very personal article in @EMNews about my own depression. B/c MD mental health is important. https://t.co/dkLPphJZSC — Goldilocks (@ERGoddessMD) October 30, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine - THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 