“I lost both men I dated in med school to suicide. Not during medical school, but later. And here they are. And so this is like a really big problem and that’s why I’m obsessed and I can’t get off this topic until we address it in a serious way because it does deserve serious …
“There was just no way I was going to sit and kill a dog to try to become a doctor. It just didn’t make any sense at all.” Like most medical students, I started first year really happy and excited. I was finally getting my dream off the ground. So then what really threw me …
“When you can take a song that means something to you, and perform it and add your emotions to it, there’s nothing like it.“ My interest in sleep disorders started when I was 18 and working in Israel. Because it was so hot there, we’d get up at 3 or 4 in the morning to …
“I usually see a world full of colour, sparkly and bright! But my burnout eventually took control of my life and the colour I usually see faded.“ I am a chatterbox, I am nosy, and I love people. That worked out for the best for my 20+ year career as a general practitioner and it …
“Academic surgeons push boundaries, as we are the first to develop new technology and use them in patients. This is inherently very risky” As a clinical academic, I have developed a career that is partially science and partially surgery. My current research work focuses on the use of implantable robots to overcome any form of …
“For healthcare workers, it was about survival. It wasn’t easy watching patients deteriorate and die, we’d spend hours in full PPE and we didn’t know when we were going to have the time to eat, drink, go to the bathroom. We all kind of just pushed through, because what else could we do? “ The pandemic …
“I needed to become a psychologist, someone qualified to help and able to do so. But at the same time, I was a patient, with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder“ Training as a clinical psychologist, I found myself holding two different and at times what felt like incompatible identities. I needed to become a psychologist, …
“Everything was so chaotic. The doctors and nurses were running everywhere. At first, I didn’t really know what to do. I was standing there, and then I thought, alright, I have to write the time down, to document everything.“ Throughout my medical training, the worst mental health experience I had at the hospital is something …
Medical students definitely experience serious mental health tolls during their time in medical school due to heavy workloads and tough timelines. This toll is especially significant for medical students moving across countries and living far away from their homes and in student dormitories. One medical student I know experienced depression in his first year due …
“Such fleeting things, these post-it notes. But these small pieces of sticky paper hold an entirely different meaning for me. What do you think of when you see post-it notes? Well, I see them every day, and I think of my loved ones.“ What do you think of when you see post-it notes? Hastily scribbled …