Human life has four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
In the 1980s and 1990s, I saw doctors in the autumn of their lives.
When I recently entered a hospital, it looked like a factory. I saw doctors in spring and summer—but no autumn.
Where did the experienced doctors go?
Jeff Kennett’s beyondblue created a special mental-health program for doctors. Its national survey confirmed unusually high psychological distress within the medical profession.
Doctors enter medicine to heal people.
A commercial health system requires them to manage illness.
This is more than workplace stress. It is moral conflict between the doctor’s purpose and the system’s purpose.
When prevention threatens profit, health care becomes disease maintenance.
Australian Mythology 