Suicide of a Loyola Hospital intern from Harvard after only 3 months of internship - My heartfelt condolences
In September 2011, a first year resident at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL committed suicide by hanging in his home, 3 months after starting his internship at Loyola Medical Center. He was a brilliant Chinese physician with MD-PhD degrees, who graduated earlier in 2011 from Harvard. He enjoyed years of success at Harvard, before starting internship at Loyola Medical Center.
He was well known to his friends for his enthusiasm towards starting internship and his desire to make the world a better place for others.
Despite revised duty hours, interns' work environments remain highly stressful and the adverse impacts on the interns are often not recognized or addressed properly. I would like to pay tributes to these unsung heroes who persevere to compassionately care for their patients despite their own sufferings from the undue stress of internship, and send my condolences to those who had paid the ultimate price.
Any loss of life is tragic. It is especially so for a young accomplished physician graduate, who was full of life and compassion for his patients, to end his life after only 3 months of internship at Loyola Medical Center. His death is not only a great loss to his elderly parents, who are retired academics, but an even greater loss for the thousands of potential patients who would have benefited from his compassionate and outstanding care.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/guest254/status/196058095011631105
In September 2011, a first year resident at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL committed suicide by hanging in his home, 3 months after starting his internship at Loyola Medical Center. He was a brilliant Chinese physician with MD-PhD degrees, who graduated earlier in 2011 from Harvard. He enjoyed years of success at Harvard, before starting internship at Loyola Medical Center.
He was well known to his friends for his enthusiasm towards starting internship and his desire to make the world a better place for others.
Despite revised duty hours, interns' work environments remain highly stressful and the adverse impacts on the interns are often not recognized or addressed properly. I would like to pay tributes to these unsung heroes who persevere to compassionately care for their patients despite their own sufferings from the undue stress of internship, and send my condolences to those who had paid the ultimate price.
Any loss of life is tragic. It is especially so for a young accomplished physician graduate, who was full of life and compassion for his patients, to end his life after only 3 months of internship at Loyola Medical Center. His death is not only a great loss to his elderly parents, who are retired academics, but an even greater loss for the thousands of potential patients who would have benefited from his compassionate and outstanding care.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/guest254/status/196058095011631105
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