Why are doctors such bad patients? Dr. Junaid Niazi argues it’s less about stubbornness and more about how medical practice is built around clinicians never being sick. He walks through the research, from the Johns Hopkins Precursors Study to a JAMA Pediatrics survey on working while ill, showing how many physicians lack a regular doctor, skip preventive screenings, and work sick rather than let colleagues absorb their patients. He covers Robert Klitzman’s idea of “post-residency disease,” why the hallway curbside is no substitute for an outside set of eyes, and the added barriers around mental health care, including licensing fears and confidentiality, with EHR “break-the-glass” protections and the Physician Support Line as resources. He closes with structural fixes: protected appointment time, real sick coverage, and using open enrollment to name a primary care doctor. He also ties the lost personal time back to charting, the problem Charting Conquered Blueprint is designed to solve.
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