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It is time to stop stigmatizing mental health among healthcare workers

from Forbes (opinion)

It is time to stop stigmatizing mental health among healthcare workers Forbes (opinion) Jessica Gold writes, "Over the weekend, inspired by a recent New York Times article about the death of well respected emergency medicine physician, Dr. Lorna Breen to suicide during Covid-19, Dr. Esther Choo, also an emergency medicine physician and a vocal public health advocate, took to her twitter account of nearly 130,000 followers to express her feelings about stoicism in medicine, the dangers of the hero trope, and her own experience with mental health. What followed was an unprecedented experience in healthcare. A flood of professionals from physicians to nurses to therapists to pharmacists wrote about their own mental health histories, sometimes for the first time, in an attempt to destigmatize mental health and help seeking in the medical profession." READ MORE

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