Physician Wellbeing Resources – Reading and Watching

The Fall issues of the KCMS and KCOA Bulletin magazine featured many resources for Physician Wellbeing. References to most of information submitted by William Sanders, DO are listed below.

  • http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/consequences.html
  • Lindeman S, Laara E, Hakko H, Lonnqvist J. Br J Psychiatry. 1996 Mar;168(3):274-9. A systematic review on gender-specific suicide mortality in medical doctors.
  • Louise B Andrew, MD, JD; Chief Editor: Barry E Brenner, MD, PhD, FACEP, Medscape, Physician Suicide
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  • Goebert, Deborah DPH; Thompson, Diane MD; Takeshita, Junji MD; Beach, Cheryl PhD; Bryson, Philip LCSW; Ephgrave, Kimberly MD; Kent, Alan PhD; Kunkel, Monique MD; Schechter, Joel PhD; Tate, Jodi MD, Academic Medicine, Depressive Symptoms in Medical Students and Residents: A Multischool Study,
  • Center for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
  • Torre, Suic Life Thr Behav, 2005
  • The Cost of Technology JAMA. 2012;307(23):2497-2498. Elizabeth Toll MD
  • Christine Y Lu et al. BMJ 2014;348:bmj.g3596
  • Jong-Min Woo, Olaoluwa Okusaga, Teodor T. Postolache. Seasonality of Suicidal Behavior Int J Environ Res Health. 2012 February; 9(2) 531-547.
  • Frank E, Biola H, Burnett CA. Mortality Rates and Causes Among U.S. Physicians. Am J Prev Med. 2000 Oct, 19(3): 155-9.
  • Linzer M., et al. “10 Bold Steps To Prevent Burnout In General Internal Medicine.” J Gen Intern Med, 2014;29:18-20.
  • Peckham, C. “Physician Burnout: It Just Keeps Getting Worse.” Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report, January 26, 2015.
  • Cohen, J. “Minds Turned to Ash.” The Economist 1843 magazine, August/September, 2016.
  • Galen. As quoted in Robson, D. “The reasons why exhaustion and burnout are so common.” BBC Future, July 22, 2016, on-line reference, accessed on October 29, 2016,
  • Beard, G. “Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1869(3):217-221. As referenced in Taylor, R.E. “Death of neurasthenia and its psychological reincarnation: A study of neurasthenia at the National Hospital for the Relief and Cure of the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, London, 1870-1932” Brit J of Psychiatry, December 2001;179(6):550-557.
  • Jauhar, S. “Why Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession.” The Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2014.
  • Smith, RP. Physician burnout. Oral presentation, Grand Rapids, MI, October 18, 2016.
  • Studer, Q. Healing physician Burnout. Pensacola: Fire Starter Publishing, 2015:55-69, 82-86.
  • Carlson, R. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s All Small Stuff. New York: Hyperion, 1997:19-20
  • Phillips, D. Physician Burnout Can Be Reduced by Targeted Interventions, October 11, 2016. Medscape.
  • Szigethy, E, MD, PhD, Burnout: Strategies to Prevent and Overcome a Common-and Dangerous-Problem.
  • Adapted from Kearney MK. Self-Care of Physicians Caring for Patients at the End Of Life. JAMA. 2009;301:1155-1164
  • Krasner MS, Epstein RM, et. al. JAMA.  2009; 302: 1284-1293
  • TED talks. “How to make stress your friend”
  • TED talks “The Happy Secret to Better Work”