How Physicians Can Stay Whole Without Stepping Away
September 2025
In a profession defined by relentless demands and emotional weight, physicians often find themselves sacrificing personal well-being in the name of patient care. How Physicians Can Stay Whole Without Stepping Away offers practical, compassionate strategies for maintaining mental and physical endurance without leaving the field. From HALT checks and breathwork to workflow tweaks and peer support, this piece reframes self-care not as luxury—but as survival.
Frontline Connect: Eliminating Barriers to Mental Health Services for the Health Care Workforce
May 2024
American Medical Association (AMA) STEPS Forward podcast in which Dr. Gaurava Agarwal, vice president and chief wellness executive at Northwestern Medicine, discusses Frontline Connect: Mental Health Care for the Health Care Workforce, an initiative by the Center for Workplace Mental Health (a program of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation) that provides leaders of health systems with high-impact resources and strategies to improve access to mental health services for the health care workforce.
Rethinking Residency
2024
Self compassion resources for all physicians, with a focus on residency.
An Impaired Physician with Alcohol Use Disorder and Multiple Medical Comorbidities
2020
Article in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry
By Hsu, Michael MD; Farahmand, Pantea MD; Baslet, Gaston MD; Sanchez, Luis MD; Levy-Carrick, Nomi C. MD, MPhil; Suzuki, Joji MD
Contributing author: Luis T. Sanchez, MD, former FSPHP President
Combating Physician Burnout: A Guide for Psychiatrists
2020
Book Available on aapi.org
Edited by Sheila LoboPrabhu, M.D., Richard F. Summers, M.D., and H. Steven Moffic, M.D.
Dr. Luis T. Sanchez, MD, Former FSPHP President and Gary Chinman, MD, Former FSPHP Member, are both contributing authors and experts from the field of physician health and Physician Health Programs.
Summer Series on Physician Well-Being
Ohio State Medical Association
Recorded Sessions Available
Medical Family Relationships Keys for Coping in Unprecedented Times
Wayne M. Sotile, PhD
Burnout: Measurement Tool(s), Cause(s) and Impact(s)
January 22, 2020
Article in The Rural Monitor. This is the first in a two-part series on rural physician and provider behavioral health.
By Kay Miller Temple, MD
Physician Burnout: Definition(s), Cause(s), Impact(s), Solution(s)
January 22, 2020
Article in The Rural Monitor
By Kay Miller Temple, MD.
FSMB Physician Wellness and Burnout Report
April 2018
