sick doctor

A term for a medically-qualified doctor who suffers from one or more psychological problems directly or indirectly related to the practice of medicine.

Sick doctor problems
• Alcohol and substance misuse/addiction;
• Anxiety and emotional exhaustion;
• Depression and suicidal ideation;
• Eating disorders;
• Panic disorder;
• Phobias;
• Post traumatic stress disorder.

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Sick Doctors Trust

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Arguelles, in his defense of the Church, likened it to a sick doctor still trying to cure other peoples' illnesses aside from his own.

'Churchmen must proclaim what is right amid falling short of teachings'

Even then, I am thankful that the PTI health minister's brother called and because of that my brother got bed in ICU," the brother of the sick doctor said.

A phone call away from better treatment

The sick doctor signed it so he must have come in while he was off.

PROBE INTO MISSING GPs; Patients left waiting for appointments

SICK doctor Clifford Ayling has been given a pounds 250,000 pension, even though he was jailed for abusing women patients.

Voice of The Sunday Mirror: Don't reward this vile doctor

The sick doctor was suffering from the effects of his addiction to the painkiller pethidine when he was called to Susan Orlinski's home following the premature birth of her son Christian.

Part One: 3-Page Special On Harold Shipman - Making Of A Monster: Evil junkie killed my baby boy, sobs mum

Yves Pages interestingly likens Le Sang noir to Celine's Voyage au bout de la nuit, for their comparably decentred standpoints: the front seen from the back or the wings, and the similar passivity of the sick doctor Bardamu and the constipated thinker Cripure, an infected member of that jingoistic teaching-class.

Le Mal absolu: Actes du colloque Louis Guilloux et la guerre

By the mid 1970s, the sick doctor was in search of the next perverted high and discovered it in the callous killing of his trusting patients - most of them female.

PART ONE: 3-PAGE SPECIAL ON HAROLD SHIPMAN - MAKING OF A MONSTER: DR DEATH: THE SECRET SEX DESIRES THAT DROVE HIM TO KILL; Warped lusts that made GP tread same path as Ripper

German student Markus Pissarek, who reported Buchan to the General Medical Council, said his life was "turned upside-down" after the sick doctor indecently assaulted him in 1998.

GROPING DOC WAS A 'GAY PREDATOR' Perv GP faces jail for sexually abusing male patients during routine check-ups

A SICK doctor airlifted to safety from the South Pole in a tiny plane arrived safely in Chile last night.

Pole rescue doctor safe

A FLIGHT crew was yesterday making last minute preparations for the daring rescue of a sick doctor in the South Pole.

Hope for Pole doc

Previously, the government had said it would only have enough to treat two sick doctors.

Doctors: Ebola drug poses 'impossible dilemma'

LIBERIA will soon receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug and give it to two sick doctors, making them the first Africans to receive some of the scarce treatment in a spiralling outbreak.