Katherine Twombley is a pediatric nephrologist and author of First Do No Harm: A Physician’s Burnout and Mental Health Guidebook from Medical School to Retirement.
An excerpt from First Do No Harm: A Physician’s Burnout and Mental Health Guidebook from Medical School to Retirement.
Residency requirements have changed drastically since my father completed medical school in the 1970s. Residents needed to be fully focused and alert despite working forty-eight- or seventy-two-hour days, which led some to substance misuse. Some residents took stimulants to help perk themselves …
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