[mentalhealth]

Residents barely have time to eat (we called it "low food security"), let alone consider their mental health. I've actually heard it vocalized as a strategy for hospital administration -- keep the residents absurdly overworked and stressed out (and with no way out, since almost all of them have so much debt that leaving the profession is not an option), and they can't muster the coordination to do anything about their terrible working conditions.

[jancsika]

Right, I get that. But take this line from the article about the author's free confidential counseling session:

> The therapist’s first question was about my sleep schedule—the likely cause of my distress, but also absolutely beyond my control.

Is the purpose of the confidential counseling session to restore wellness to 100%? Or is it to combat the enormously elevated suicide risk in physicians that the author cites? That it doesn't provide the former tells you nothing about its effectiveness in preventing the latter.