The Illusion Of The Perfect Profession - 9781952976957

Betsy Gall was living the American dream. Married to an oncologist with threehealthy children; life was pretty darn good. That all changed on ThanksgivingDay of 2019 when her "life of the party" physician husband took his own life.Matthew Taylor Gall, M.D., M.S., who had devoted his entire life to savinglives, was dead at the young age of 49.The Illusion of the Perfect Profession is a culmination of Betsy's journals,letters to God, and her journey with faith throughout this horrific, traumaticexperience that left her family shattered and asking how could this happen.Through reading and research, Betsy discovered that physician suicide is atrend. One million patients lose their doctors to suicide every single year. Thisis a subject matter that, unfortunately, needs to be widely discussed to helpchange a system that is undoubtedly broken.This book is one wife's story about love, physician suicide, and findingcomfort and purpose in the aftermath.Suicide has reached the point where, like knowing someone with cancer,we all know someone who has killed themselves. Anyone and everyone is atrisk, and that includes people in the medical profession. The saying, 'doctorheal thyself,' is easier said than done, and tragically every year, doctors die bysuicide at a rate higher than that of the general population. It happened tomy family in 2017 when we lost my ex-husband, who was also a cardiothoracicsurgeon. It was years later when I met Betsy, and we soon learnedhow much we had in common. Her drive to help others going through thesame experience and to offer hope and healing, courage, and community toothers who have lost a loved one to suicide is inspiring. One thing is clear,optics are deceiving, even for doctors.~Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent and author ofLife After Suicide.

• | Author: Betsy Gall
• | Publisher: Kirk House Publishers
• | Publication Date: Nov 29, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1952976952
• | ISBN-13: 9781952976957