PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? In fact, some Emergency Departments note that as many as one tenth of their patient volume is mental health. They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do. Haider: That was a great story.

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