This season finale examines the moral injury that the current U.S. health care system inflicts on physicians and trainees — and how they may be able to offer care that aligns with their values.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400700.
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Walking the Dog
This episode considers what happens when the rigors of training and the pursuit of excellence in in medicine collide with the mental health needs of trainees.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400698.
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Building Up without Breaking Down
This episode asks how medical educators should navigate between demanding intense commitment and hard-won excellence from trainees and seriously threatening their well-being.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400697.
Source from this episode:
https://www.culturalcomplications.com/
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Whatever It Takes
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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Debt Et Cetera
In this episode, host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with two trainees whose lives and careers have been changed by educational debt, and to an economist who has a rather different take on the problem.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400695.
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