ShameinMedicine: The Lost Forest, from thenocturnists, delves into the shame that clinicians feel after making mistakes, when faced with lawsuits from patients, and in working every day in a culture where 'unrealistic standards' are the norm. MedTwitter
In William Bynum's second year as a medical resident, he was pressed into a high-stakes emergency service to deliver a baby, despite feeling that he was the only person in the delivery room who didn't know what he was doing.
Bynum is a co-creator and lead researcher of"Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest," — a 10-part series from"There are some countercurrents to the acknowledgment and processing of shame that prevent us from engaging with it and constructively moving through it," Bynum said. "Nobody's immune," said Emily Silverman, MD, an internal medicine physician at the University of California San Francisco, and creator of."Shame is a survival mechanism that probably evolved to keep us together as a tribe or a herd."
Shame in medicine runs the gamut from a response to having made medical errors and the challenges of balancing careers with motherhood or disability, to meeting the expectations of others, even the fear of being sued. One episode of the podcast is devoted to litigation, with a focus on a lack of training in medical school, which can result with clinicians feeling unprepared.