Healing the Healers: A New Approach to Mental Health in the Medical Profession

In Massachusetts. A groundbreaking shift aims to dismantle the stigma surrounding mental health among medical professionals. The state’s hospitals and health insurers have commitment to ceasing inquiries about clinician’s past mental illness and addiction histories in credentialing paperwork. 

Health care workers, especially female doctors, also are at disproportionately higher risk of suicide, compared to other workers. An estimated 300 to 400 doctors die by suicide each year.