She was a well-known and respected matron in Orange County who called at 10 PM with a “health concern” so I called her right back so I could sleep easier.
The problem was an easy one. She had her first “abnormal” blood test and had been diagnosed with what those defeatist doctors call “prediabetes” and started on metformin which is about the safest thing that exists to lower blood sugar. I mean some blood sugar medicines and lower blood sugar so much that they make people nervous and shaky and worse. But this one wouldn’t hurt her. Read more on Diabetes Is Not A Death Sentence…
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I started researching workplace stress more feverishly and with fewer records of sources than usual for me, as the patient was — and still is — me.
I have practiced in every setting I can imagine a psychiatrist being in — public and private, government (from federal to county) solo and institutional, whatever.
But now I have more physical and emotional fatigue. More struggle getting my work done in the timely manner I expect from myself. More need for (albeit, sounder) sleep. And more “Sunday Night-it is” — for who has not complained about job stress? Read more on Sunday Night-itis — AKA Job Stress…
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