Physician, Heal Thyself: a Qualitative Study of Physician Health Behaviors

• Published in: Academic psychiatry Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 19 - 25
• Main Authors: George, Susan, Hanson, Janice, Jackson, Jeffrey L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer New York 01.02.2014; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Attitude to Health; Burnout; Coding; Confidentiality; Emergency medical care; Empirical Report; Employment Potential; Fear; Female; Grounded Theory; Guidelines; Health Behavior; Health Services Accessibility - standards; Humans; Interrater Reliability; Interviews; Male; Medical Education; Medical records; Medical Services; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental Health; Narcotics; Pain; Patients; Physicians; Physicians - psychology; Preventive medicine; Psychiatry; Qualitative Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Structured Interviews; Substance Abuse; Surgery; Teaching Methods; Transcripts (Written Records); Self-care; Physicians; Barriers to care

Objective The authors explore how physicians perceive their own health and barriers to healthcare, as well as what might motivate their behavior. Methods This qualitative study uses semi-structured interviews of a purposive sampling of physicians, both staff and housestaff, from Walter Reed Army Med...