Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician | Health Services Researcher
This week’s meta-analysis in JAMA shows that medical residents have high rates of depression. Earlier this year, JAMA Psychiatry published recommendations for screening for depression and suicide risk among physician trainees.
Source: One in four new doctors may be depressed, and their patients may suffer because of it
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I am a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado. I work as a physician in the emergency departments of the Children's Hospital of Colorado and as a health services researcher at the University's Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes (ACCORDS). View more posts
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