When Healers Need Healing: Doctors' Health, Need of the Hour
“The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.” -Erich Segal, Doctors Health is wealth. Well, we seem to have almost forgotten it. This is especially true for most doctors. Being in the field of medicine for almost two decades now, I have seen doctors struggling with physical and mental health issues far more than we tend to assume. The general opinion is because doctors know about the human body and various conditions that inflict upon it, they must be pretty good at dealing with its vagaries. However, the truth is doctors are after all human beings and they are vulnerable, just like anyone else. God or Not? Society still treats the medical profession and doctors in highest esteem and more often than not, we doctors start believing it (so called messiah complex or saviour complex or white knight complex) where we go out of the way to help someone or save someone. We may feel res...