PI Podcast - Matrix of Clinician Distress - Part 5 Medico-Legal-Regulatory Stress

In this episode, we explore two major stress clusters which can independently contribute to clinician distress. Being a defendant in malpractice litigation causes off-the-scale stress over a prolonged period. So too does dealing with entities in the MRTC - the Medical Regulatory Therapeutic Complex (see our article exploring this in the footnote below). ¹

Additionally, see a short video done by investigative journalist PJ Randhawa concisely relating the concerns about one PHP. ²

And the piece “To Heal or Not To Heal, Physician, That Is The Question”. ³

Would love to hear your comments below. And if you’ve found it informative, I’d be honored if you would share it with your colleagues.

Next session we cover two of the more insidious but nevertheless powerful sources of clinician distress: stress that results from discrimination in its various forms; and stress endured from the bully culture of medicine.

Thanks for listening!

1. Systematic Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the Medical Regulatory-Therapeutic Complex. Robert S. Emmons, M.D. Kernan Manion, M.D. Louise B. Andrew, M.D., J.D.  Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 23 Number 4 Winter 2018. pp 110-114. link: http://www.jpands.org/vol23no4/emmons.pdf

2. PJ Randhawa on MO PHP: “Doctors fear controversial program made to help them”

Original link: See https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/doctors-fear-controversial-program-made-to-help-them/63-ac167fca-a312-4464-a315-de5ba712698f

3. Physician Health QRMH. Special Edition on Physician Health: Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare

Link: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/qrmh/issue/current

Vol 3 No 3 (2019): Special Issue on Physician Mental Health | Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare

Link to article: To heal or not to heal, physician, that is the question