Blog - Physicians Anonymous

Caring for ourselves by caring for each other

I believe we can come out of this crisis with a new culture of a caring community. But this is only possible if we invest in self-compassion.

Joe Sherman MD 2026-10-12

Setting boundaries for self care in medicine

Self-compassion does not make you soft. Boundaries do not make you closed off nor selfish. I had to repeat this many times before I started to understand how true and how essential self-compassion and boundaries are in our lives.

Jillian Rigert DMD, MD 2026-10-05

A Safe Harbor: Why Anonymity Saves Lives

Every doctor starts with innocent wonder, but medical training forces an evolutionary shift. Explore the hidden cost of becoming a “shark” in medicine.

Dr Corrigan 2026-09-28

The Price of Perfection: When “First, Do No Harm” Excludes Yourself

Every doctor starts with innocent wonder, but medical training forces an evolutionary shift. Explore the hidden cost of becoming a “shark” in medicine.

Dr Corrigan 2026-09-23

The Silence in the On-Call Room

Every doctor starts with innocent wonder, but medical training forces an evolutionary shift. Explore the hidden cost of becoming a “shark” in medicine.

Dr Corrigan 2026-09-21

Lethal Knowledge: Why the Healing Mind is Uniquely Vulnerable

Every doctor starts with innocent wonder, but medical training forces an evolutionary shift. Explore the hidden cost of becoming a “shark” in medicine.

Dr Corrigan 2026-09-16

This article discusses physician resilience programs that may enhance self-care and our ability to cope with the stresses of modern medicine.

Physician resilience programs designed by doctors

Dr Corrigan 2022-02-08

The idea of physicians boosting their own resilience seems reasonable – at least as this relates to the personal resilience required for being a doctor. Here we present a number of physician resilience programs designed by doctors

interventions for physician resilience -Coping skills can be learned for the inherent stresses of medicine, we will be better able to serve our patients. Evidence-based resources:

Interventions for physician resilience: The evidence base

Dr Corrigan 2022-02-01

The idea of physicians boosting their own resilience seems reasonable – at least as this relates to the personal resilience required for being a doctor. Here we summarize the evidence base of interventions for physician resilience

In this article, we present resources for enhancing physician resilience for the burned-out physician or medical leader.

Resources for physician resilience

Dr Corrigan 2022-01-18

If there’s one good thing about a pandemic, it’s increased public awareness of their healthcare workers as human beings under stress. In this article, we have pulled together a number of resources for physician resilience developed by professional organizations for the interested physician reader and physician leader.

Physician Burnout and Suicide Report makes for disturbing reading: 42% of us are burned out.

Physician burnout report 2021: “Death by 1,000 cuts”

Dr Corrigan 2022-01-01

Let’s talk about physician wellbeing in the COVID era. Burnout and depression are still serious problems among physicians, especially amid COVID-19. The 2021 Medscape National Physician Burnout and Suicide Report makes for disturbing reading. More than 12,000 doctors across 29 specialties responded to the anonymous survey which ran from August to December 2020.