Physician Wellness and Resilience

Professor Pauline Davies teaches human communication at Arizona State University and practices cancer research outreach. She is an award-winning former BBC science and health broadcaster. Dr Cynthia M. Stonnington is an award-winning psychiatrist, educator, and wellness expert at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She directed the psychiatry and psychology department for 10 years.

Student life

1. Insight

(Depression, career choice, identity management, privacy)

2. Anxiety

(Anxiety, help-seeking, privacy)

3. Balance in Medical School

(Work-life integration, perfectionism, failure, empathy)

4. A Medical School Dean’s Perspective

(Learning environment, career choice, role-models)

Culture of Medicine

5. The Brunt of Anger

(Medical hierarchy, bullying)

6. Competition, Balance and Happiness

(Competition, suicide, prioritizing values)

7. Suicide and Disenchantment

(Suicide response and prevention, grief, stigma)

Practice Challenges

8. Medication Error

(medical errors, shame, humility, peer support)

9. Commitment, Challenge and Control

(Resilience, setting boundaries, career change, life lessons)

10. When Certainty is Wrong

(Sharing bad news with patients, when doctor is patient)

11. Colleagues, Privacy and Empathy

(Privacy, workplace behavior, when doctor is patient)

Career/Life Disruptions

12. Accident, Fear of Depression and a Great Career

(Depression, interrupted training, resilience, career choice, relative with mental illness)

13. Childhood in Foster Care

(Resilience, depression, help-seeking, relative with mental illness)

14. From War-torn Childhood to Life as a Foreign Medical Graduate

(Resilience, role models, acculturation, racism)

15. Empathizing with Mentally Ill People

(Empathy, relative with mental illness, expressing emotions at work)

Women in Medicine

16. Infertile and Fulfilled

(Fertility, resilience)

17. Finding Balance with Kids and Career

(Motherhood, women in medicine, giving bad news, insecurities at work)

18. Motherhood in Training

(Family planning, work-life integration, grief)

19. Regrets and Dedication

(Sex discrimination, Bullying, Infertility, Fulfillment)

COVID-19

20. Family Life in Covid Times

(medicine as a calling, work-life integration, family support)

21. The COVID-19 Experience

(Uncertainty, witnessing death)

22. COVID-19, the Aftermath

(Burnout, depression, career change)

Burnout

23. Leadership

(Overwork, grief, suicide, leadership behavior)

24. Pain Clinic Doctor’s Despair

(Moral injury, patient behavior, leadership behavior, opioid crisis)

Addiction

25. Road to Recovery

(Addiction, guilt and shame, accountability, recovery)

26. Practicing Medicine in the Grasp of Addiction

(Addiction, suicide attempt, accountability, recklessness, recovery)