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Podcast: The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
Episode: REBOOT #129 Depression and Physician Suicide with Elisabeth Poorman MD
Description: Beth Garbitelli and Nora Taranto MD add a new intro and share their own insights on this Curbsiders classic!
Physician suicide is a problem. There, we said it. We all have that story; Many of us have experienced the symptoms of depression or suicidal ideation ourselves, or have the colleague, mentor, friend, teacher, sibling, parent, or significant other who has experienced these signs and symptoms. Some of us (probably more than you’d think) have lost someone meaningful to suicide. And yet, we don’t talk about suicide and mental health in medicine, or at least, not enou...