I discovered CrazySocks4Docs Day – held annually on 1 June – only this year. The day aims to “encourage conversations about mental health and help reduce the stigma for doctors experiencing mental illness”.
The Tennis Partner is the second of Abraham Verghese’s books. Published in 1999, when he was a physician practicing internal medicine in El Paso, Texas, this is an autobiographical memoir, and Abraham Verghese writes of his experience moving to El Paso in the midst of an unraveling marriage.
View our 2017 annual report.
“Both these recent articles published in The Guardian and The Washington Post make for sobering reading and highlight the ultimate risk for practitioners – suicide.
View photos of the first PHMP annual repot launch.
Dr Ide Delargy gives a radio interview on RTE Radio 1.
View PHMP’s 2015-2016 report.
We do not have statistics on current stress levels amongst Irish doctors, dentists and pharmacists. A study conducted by Dr Bláthnaid Hayes, Dean of the Faculty of Occupational Health at the RCPI indicated that many doctors were experiencing stress.
We do not have current levels on substance and alcohol misuse among Irish Healthcare Professionals
We do not currently have accurate statistics on mental health problems among Doctors, Dentists and Pharmacists in Ireland.