It's okay to not be okay.
Jeremy Roberts, Denesh Ratnasingam, Megan Machek
Three trainees share personal stories of illness, trauma, and family loss during medical training, then offer general wellness tips.
No study, no data, no finding to act on.
What this paper is
This is a personal commentary by three medical trainees in physiatry and pediatrics. Each shares a first-person account of a challenge during training: a fellow diagnosed with testicular cancer, a medical student who developed PTSD after witnessing a double homicide, and a medical student who cared for his mother through ovarian cancer. The remainder offers general suggestions for trainee wellness, institutional resources, and patient communication scripts. There is no study design, no participant group, no intervention tested, and no outcome measured. There is no finding here to change practice on.
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