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Mar 2024
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Whatever It Takes

NEJM Group
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This episode takes a sobering look at the mental health of U.S. medical students and trainees, in an era when the pressures can be intolerable but the culture still treats depression as weakness.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400696.

Notes from this episode:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/nyregion/lorna-breen-suicide-coronavirus.html

https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/encourage-physicians-healing-make-it-ok-ask-help

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