Dr. Arlene Chung is the Program Director for the Maimonides Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY. She is also the Chair of the ACEP Well-Being Committee and serves on the New York ACEP Board of Directors. As a nationally-recognized speaker and educator, Dr. Chung has made advocating for physician wellness a central focus of her career though lectures, teaching, policy development, and creating sustainable solutions for the future
Why We Shouldn’t Teach Doctors to be Well
My nightmare is waking up to a phone call in the middle of the night with a frantic chief resident on the other end of the line telling me that one of our residents is dead. I am a lifelong…