Dr. Christina Dewey, M.D., F.A.A.P.

with Dr. Michelle Chestovich, Doctors Changing Medicine Podcast, by Dr. Una, Episode 32, 12/1/21.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doctors-changing-medicine/id1562522187?i=1000543602508

This is perhaps one of the MOST IMPORTANT PODCAST episodes ever created. If you are a physician or know a physician (which is pretty much everyone because we’re ALL patients!) PLEASE LISTEN.

Then reach out and ask your colleagues, your friends, your own physician, yourself: How are you really?

It’s ok to not be ok.

🙏 Please check in on each other.
🙏 Please reach out.
🙏 Please ask for help.
🙏 Please normalize being human.
🙏 Please normalize mental health, needing rest, & taking a break.

As physicians, we are some of THE MOST RESILIENT HUMANS ever in existence.
If we say we’re tired, we need a break, ask to switch a shift, call, weekend, call in sick, or just need a day off – please listen to us. It’s our way of saying we need help, we’re struggling. Please hear our cry and act – instead of judging and pushing us to do more. Accept that we’re human and we need all of the human things: food, water, sleep, love, kindness, time to use the bathroom.

We all struggle. We all need rest. We all need a break. We all have brains & brains need to be cared for too.

Mental Health Matters.

Let’s normalize seeking help when we need it.

Please listen, share, support and watch out for each other. 🙏

If you’re a physician in need of help, please call the Physician Support Line: 1 (888) 409-0141, or visit: https://www.physiciansupportline.com/.

It’s free, confidential, & was created by physicians for physicians.

Additional resources available/listed in my blog post from earlier this year: https://drchristinadeweymd.com/2021/07/25/this-must-stop/

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