Biography:Pamela Wible
Pamela Wible | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Wellesley College (1989) UTMB/Galveston (1993) MD |
| Occupation | Family Physician Doctor Suicide Prevention |
| Website | www |
Pamela Wible is an American physician and activist who promotes community-designed medical clinics; she also maintains a suicide prevention hotline for medical doctors and medical students. Wible is based in Eugene, Oregon.
Biography
Early life
Pamela Laine Wible was born in 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1] to physician parents: her mother is a psychiatrist and her father was a pathologist.[2] She spent time growing up both in Philadelphia as well as in rural Texas.[2] She would accompany her father in his work in the morgue, and she spent time visiting state mental hospitals with her mother.[2]
Education
Pamela Wible attended Wellesley College (in Wellesley, Massachusetts ) as an undergraduate[3][4] and then received her MD degree in 1993 from the medical school of the University of Texas Medical Branch (in Galveston, Texas ).[5] In 1996 she completed her training in Family Medicine at the University of Arizona Department of Family and Community Medicine.[6]
Medical career
Upon completing her medical training, Wible worked for several years in a variety of medical settings, including hospital-based clinics and community health centers.[7] Wible began to experience suicidal ideation due to depression and pressures related to her job[8][9] when she became increasingly frustrated with short patient-appointments and other restrictions, and so she stopped her work in the year 2004, and then in 2005 she held a series of "town hall" meetings where she invited community members to write out what they felt would be the features of an "ideal clinic."[7] In the same year Wible opened up a new clinic in the city of Eugene, Oregon which was based on the recommendations from the community.[7] She has also helped do a similar town-hall feedback session with a hospital in Chippewa Valley in 2010.[10]
Wible's clinic includes same-day appointments, appointments that start on time and a smaller practice size.[11] She also emphasizes "patient-focused medicine."[8] The change in her practice helped her enjoy her work as a physician again.[9]
Wible has set up an anonymous suicide prevention hotline to help doctors and medical students who are contemplating suicide.[12] She also collects stories of doctor suicides as a way of raising awareness of the problem.[13][14] Wible's work on doctor suicide prevention is featured in the documentary film Do No Harm: Exposing the Hippocratic Hoax, by filmmaker Robyn Symon.[15] In 2015, she spoke at TEDMED about the problem of suicide in the medical profession.[16] Wible also has a blog called Ideal Medical Care which shares physician's stories of their treatment while being trained and also stories of suicides by physicians and trainees.[15]
Wible has also been critical of medical animal testing.[17]
Published works
- Pet Goats & Pap Smears: 101 Medical Adventures to Open Your Heart & Mind (2012). ISBN:978-0985710309
- Physician Suicide Letters Answered, (2016). ISBN:978-0985710323
- Human Rights Violations in Medicine: A-to-Z Action Guide, (2019). ISBN:978-0985710330
See also
- Slow medicine
- Doctor's visit
- Bullying in medicine
- Suicide awareness
References
- ↑ Marohn, Stephanie, ed (2010). Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "HEALTHCARE HEROES - Pamela Wible, M.D." (in en). 19 June 2019. https://www.registerguard.com/special/20190619/healthcare-heroes---pamela-wible-md.
- ↑ "FreelanceMD". https://www.freelancemd.com/writers/.
- ↑ "Wellesley Magazine". https://issuu.com/wellesley/docs/finalpdf_no_notes_winter13/19.
- ↑ "USNews & World Report". https://health.usnews.com/doctors/pamela-wible-453948.
- ↑ "Family & Community Medicine: Arizona". https://www.fcm.arizona.edu/resident-alum/pamela-wible.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Denniston, Dave (27 July 2015). "3 Strategies to Break out of 'Assembly-Line Medicine'". https://www.mdmag.com/physicians-money-digest/contributor/dave-denniston/2015/07/3-strategies-to-break-out-of-assembly-line-medicine.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "A doctor's quest to understand why so many physicians die by suicide". 22 February 2019. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/helplessness-1.5009529/a-doctor-s-quest-to-understand-why-so-many-physicians-die-by-suicide-1.5028162.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Nelson, Eric (2 February 2016). "With New Clinic, 'Physician on a Mission' Keeps Compassion in Fashion". Visalia Times-Delta. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36035562/.
- ↑ Vetter, Chris (27 October 2010). "Hospital Patients' Wish? Treat Us Like Real People". Leader-Telegram. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36037435/.
- ↑ McNulty, Eric J. (30 September 2013). "Reimagining Primary Care: When Small Is Beautiful". Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2013/09/reimagining-primary-care-when-small-is-beautiful. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ↑ Farmer, Blake (6 August 2018). "Doctors Grapple with High Suicide Rates in Their Ranks". https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/doctors-grapple-with-high-suicide-rates-in-their-ranks/.
- ↑ Farmer, Blake (31 July 2018). "When Doctors Struggle With Suicide, Their Profession Often Fails Them". https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/31/634217947/to-prevent-doctor-suicides-medical-industry-rethinks-how-doctors-work.
- ↑ Gartland, Michael (17 July 2021). "NYC doctor suicides raise concerns about treatment of resident physicians at Bronx hospital". https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-suicides-residency-lincoln-medical-center-south-bronx-20210718-eiq3tepxxbcwdacip3au4624m4-story.html.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chou, Shinnyi (2017). "Do No Harm: The Story of the Epidemic of Physician and Trainee Suicides" (in en). American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal 12 (4): 10. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2017.120406. ISSN 2474-4662.
- ↑ Newkirk, Barrett (19 November 2015). "TEDMED 2015 Get Started in La Quinta". The Desert Sun. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36032695/.
- ↑ McClain, Carla (30 April 1995). "Critics Cringe at Parkinston's Tests Using Monkeys". News-Press. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36032592/.
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