This week, two First Opinion contributors join Pat to talk about the toll that medicine can take on a professional's mental health, and how the pandemic has only exacerbated those consequences. Corey Feist co-wrote his essay with his wife Jennifer Breen Feist, the sister of Lorna Breen, who died by suicide last year after contracting Covid-19. Wendy Dean is a psychiatrist who wrote an iconic First Opinion in 2018 about the moral injury that physicians experience. Corey and Wendy joined Pat for a discussion on how to heal the healers.
Episode 18: An advocate & a psychiatrist on physician suicide | First Opinion Podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
