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Friday, February 22, 2019

Doctors share how burnout nearly led them to suicide

In the darkest moments of her depressive episode, Dr. Carol Pak-Teng lay in bed for hours, struggling to summon up the energy to work another 12-hour shift in the emergency room.

“There were moments where I thought, ‘If I just melted away into this bed, that wouldn’t be so bad,’ ” the 34-year-old recalls of that time in 2015. About a year later, another resident at the Manhattan hospital where Pak-Teng worked — whom she declines to name — died after jumping off its roof.

“The other residents weren’t even that shocked,” she tells The Post, “because so many of us have had that thought.”

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

300k a year housing and private parking to work few hours a week. 401k, stock options, full benefits. Not to mention food. Cry me a river.