Mastering Intensive Care 032 with Kate Harding

LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Kate Harding – Losing Richard: What can we learn from her intensivist husband’s shocking death? What is it like to witness an intensivist struggle? And what can we learn from the shocking death of an intensivist? This special Mastering Intensive Care episode is on a difficult and important topic. Rather than focusing on bringing our best selves to work, the focus of this episode is the ultimate tragedy of our profession, doctor suicide. I warn you that this is a sad and confronting story about the troubling situation intensivist Richard Harding went through, including dealing with a mental health condition as well as a medical complaint made against him, before ultimately taking his own life 8 months ago in New Zealand. Richard’s death is still under investigation by the New Zealand Coroner and the findings as to the final cause and circumstances of his death have not been released. In this podcast, his wife, Kate Harding, describes her observations and perspectives on what happened to Richard. I didn’t know Richard. I only came to know of his death when Kate wrote a blog piece in the British Medical Journal. It was sad and it was moving. When she published another article in the Guardian two months later, I figured that whilst Kate was grieving as she dealt with the aftermath of a serious life crisis, she wan...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies doctor intensivist Kate Harding Mental Health Richard Harding suicide Source Type: blogs