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“When Sean Wilson needed to make his first life-or-death decision as a doctor, it wasn’t his medical school training he called upon. It was his time spent in Canada’s infantry that helped him.
Originally from northern Ontario, Wilson had just moved his family to Montreal to start work as a resident family doctor, a junior physician learning the ins and outs of a specific medical discipline,” wrote Blair Bigham for CBC News on Sunday February 26, 2017.
Bigham continued, “But most new doctors don’t have a military background that comes with special training in resiliency, and many are overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for sick patients in busy hospitals. That stress leads to burnout and depression.
A 2015 review in the Journal of the American Medical Association found one in three residents is depressed, and that physicians experience higher-than-average rates of suicide.
That looks set to change, however, as many Canadian hospitals and medical schools adapt psychological training originally developed by the U.S. Navy SEALs to help soldiers stay calm under fire, similar to training Wilson received during his time in the Canadian Forces.”
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