Pamela Wible, MD

July 07, 2014

Pamela Wible, MD, is a family physician in solo practice in Oregon. She accepts most insurance plans. But, to protect herself, her practice, and her patients, she is very clear on what type of contract she will not sign.

June 26, 2014

Here, 12 reasons why physicians could use a little TLC. Tell us how many ring true for you.

June 11, 2014

This 20-year veteran of family medicine says she believes patients want professional closeness, not professional distance. She believes closeness can be done appropriately-and that it should be done.

June 05, 2014

A family physician talks honestly about the stress and the deep feelings of failure that pile up as she tries, day after day, to meet her clinic's demand to pack more sick patients into 15-minute appointments.

April 02, 2014

Outside the field, the statistics on physician suicide may elicit surprise. Here, physicians and students who have thought about it write not about surprise but about disbelief that so little help is available.

January 13, 2014

Being emotionally available and accessible is healing. Are you open to that part of medicine with your patients?

December 19, 2013

I started kissing patients in med school. And I haven’t stopped.

July 30, 2013

A miscarriage, the spontaneous expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is able to survive on its own, ends 1 in 5 pregnancies.

May 21, 2013

A psychiatrist in Seattle had picked out the bridge. At 3 AM he would swerve across his lane and plunge into the water. Everyone would assume he fell asleep. An airtight suicide plan. But this doc survived. Why?

May 10, 2013

Most doctors are burned out, overworked, or exhausted. Physicians rarely ask for help.