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STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Condemns Skrmetti Decision, LGBTQ+ Hotline Closure

Doctors for America

. – On June 18, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors to stand, upholding a discriminatory policy that denies medically necessary care to a vulnerable population. They send an unmistakable message that queer and trans lives are disposable.

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Your Least Favorite Emotion, and What to Do with It.

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

The Nagoski sisters in their book on burnout highlighted 7 things shown to close the cycle and signal your brain and threat detection system you are safe: Physical exercise. Physicians often neglect their own mental health for a variety of reasons, tuning in late to the need is just one factor. Focused breathing exercises.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

(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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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

And also, really like the way that you have identified different kinds of outcomes, spiritual wellbeing with the facet SP, as well as then impact on mental health outcomes or emotional distress outcomes of anxiety and depression. That’s one thing that I thought was really helpful and appreciate. So there is this overlap.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. And it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. If you’ve ever felt trapped, disillusioned, or burned out in your medical career—this talk may be the most important hour you’ve spent in years. .

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Condemns Inhumane Immigration Enforcement

Doctors for America

Detaining individuals in overcrowded, unsanitary facilities without timely access to medical care directly endangers their lives. Children and families are experiencing severe psychological distress, toxic stress, and long-term harm to physical and mental health due to forced separations and the constant threat of deportation.