Pamela Wible, MD

Clinician mental health advocate Pamela Wible, MD, has drafted The 10 Commandments for Medical Educators. Your comments welcomed.

At TEDMED, medicine's version of TEDTalks, Dr Pam Wible talks in earnest about physician suicide--and how to stop it.

A young doctor writes of the horror she felt at learning about the apparent suicide of a medical resident who lived in her building.

Any doc can do it: First, do NOT touch the patient, but DO check all EHR boxes for ROS and PE; also, do be sure to Rx yoga.

A physician says she has lied on job applications about treatment for postpartum depression. Is that really necessary?

The title of her upcoming book, these words also describe a personal mission for Pamela Wible, MD.

Physicians and students speak out about how to step back, even step out if you need to, and reimagine your passion for healing.

AMA VP Christine Sinsky, MD, interviews Dr Wible about physician suicide, barriers to mental health care for physicians, and potential solutions.

Is there an alternative to practicing "churn-and-burn" medicine? Yes, says Dr Pamela Wible, and she will explain.

"I have lost my joy and my soul is sad. I never used to feel this way about medicine." Dr Pamela Wible offers her Rx.

Who, exactly, is protecting doctors from being misdiagnosed, mistreated, and abused?

Is med school now a place where students meet doctors they'd never want to become? Is anyone modeling the happy doc in solo practice?

How do you know if you're being abused? See if any of the video testimony here rings true.

Bare-bones guidelines to starting your own ideal medical clinic, courtesy of Pamela Wible, MD.

Dr Pam Wible takes you through, step-by-step.

What would medical training look like if students were encouraged to seek mental health support?

I drive 100 miles up the Oregon coast to see my disabled patient Johnny. His blood pressure was excellent, and the view from the backyard? Priceless.

What if you threw a Pap Party-and everybody came? Dr Pamela Wible provides step-by-step instructions on how to do it right.

We don’t need to be any more resilient. Every part of a doctor is resilient. Even our bladders are resilient! We need training to become resistant.

Pamela Wible, MD, will stop taking commercial insurance on 6/1/2015. She gave her patients the option to leave or stay.

A physician is found dead, an apparent suicide. Other building tenants get the media’s attention-but not because they knew Dr Azkue.

ED physicians DO cry-and this one was caught in the act. Far from being universally villified for “losing it,” his all-too-human emotion has struck a much deeper chord.

In testimony to the state legislature on March 18, 2015, Dr Wible endorsed a bill requiring annual depression screening for Missouri medical school students and services to those at risk.

Solve problems, return calls, start on time-3 of the 7 ways Dr Pamela Wible ensures her patients are hers and always hers.

For this young physician in India, reading an article on physician suicide was “the best thing” in his day. There is one thing, he says, that keeps him moving forward.

“Maybe (like me) you just want to know why our colleagues die by suicide at twice the rate of their patients” asks this family physician. Here: results from 4 “psychological autopsies.”

Nope. No more open-ended questions that may invite wandering answers. Who has time when the double-booked patient sits in the exam room next door?

#6. You pray you will be diagnosed with cancer so you can get some time to sleep. Am I right?

Can a medical practice survive without taking Medicare? Many are being forced to try. Here, one family physician lists her reasons for walking away.