Fair enough.
Personally, I don’t think we have a residency training problem. We have a culture of medicine problem. Medicine is traumatizing. Seeking help is perceived as weakness and failure. And physicians aren’t allowed to be weak or to fail and often don’t know how to be cared for. It is a recipe for disaster. Just my psychiatric 2 cents.
I wonder how our rate of physician suicide compares to other countries where doctors work fewer hours. Lack of sleep can lead to a sort of psychosis.
I wondered about that too, since D1 is emigrating to country where there are strictly caps on a doctor’s work hours, even during their equivalent of residency. (40 hours/week fror attendings, 60 hours/week for residents) So I checked–the suicide rate there isn’t much different. Physicians, med students, and junior doctors-in-training still kill themselves at a significantly higher rate than their peers in the general population.
Countries with physician suicide rates that are higher than the general public: US, Canada, China, Australia, Great Britain, Norway, India, Germany, France, Finland, Pakistan, Italy, Sweden, South Africa, Kenya, Hong Kong, Iceland, Estonia…I stopped looking after that.