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Physician Suicide Podcasts

  • 9-minute mini-podcast which by CORD member Gita Pensa along with Loice Swisher explaining the origins of the day as well as the #s- #NPSADay, #docstalksuicide, and #Light4Docs

  • The Dark Side of EM– Mel Herbert speaks to Ramin Tabatabai about resident wellness and one recently deeply disquieting fact regarding physician wellness, or lack of it.
  • Suicide Risk in Physicians– Mel Herbert, Ramin Tabatabai, Christine Moutier and Matthew DeClerck touch on suicide risk in physicians.  How did we get here and now what are we going to do about it?
  • Resident Wellness– Michelle Lin interviews Chris Doty starting with him reading the letter he wrote after one of his residents died by suicide.
  • Suicide and Accidental Death in Doctors– Interviews with families of doctors affected by suicide or accidental death (UK).

Physician Suicide Videos

  • Make the Difference: Preventing Medical Trainee Suicide (video 
  • Just Ask (video)
  • I Would Call (video)
  • Unspoken:  Doctor depression and suicide (video
  • NPSA Day Power Point (download)
  • Struggling in Silence (video
  • Failed Coping:  Recognizing and responding to suicide risk in our students, residents and colleagues  (video)

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