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I want to thank Dr. Wible for agreeing to act as guest
editor of this issue. Dr. Pamela Wible is a family physician
born into a family of physicians who warned her not to
pursue medicine. She soon discovered why - to heal her
patients she first had to heal her profession. Fed up with
assembly-line medicine, Dr. Wible held town hall meet-
ings where she invited citizens to design their own ideal
clinic. Open since 2005, Wible’s community clinic has in-
spired Americans to create ideal clinics and hospitals na-
tionwide. In between treating her own patients and
helping doctors launch community clinics, Dr. Wible de-
votes herself to medical student and physician suicide pre-
vention. She has investigated nearly 1300 doctor suicides
and her extensive database and suicide registry reveals
highest risk specialties - and solutions. Dr. Wible runs a
free doctor suicide hotline and has helped countless med-
ical students and physicians heal from anxiety, depression,

PTSD, and suicidal thoughts so they can enjoy practicing
medicine again. Dr. Wible speaks widely on health care
delivery and physician suicide prevention. She is the best-
selling author of Human Rights Violations in Medicine:
A-to-Z Action Guide, Physician Suicide Letters - An-
swered and Pet Goats & Pap Smears: 101 Medical Ad-
ventures to Open Your Heart & Mind. Her blogs have
been picked up by major media such as The Washington
Post and Time Magazine. She has delivered two TED
talks, an award-winning NPR interview, and is a subject
in the new documentary, Do No Harm: Exposing the Hip-
pocratic Hoax. An inspiring leader and educator of the
next generation of physicians, Dr. Wible has been named
one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine by the
American Medical Student Association and TEDMED
calls her the “Physicians’ Guardian Angel”. 
Her introduction to this issue follows.

Editor’s introduction to the Guest Editor Pamela Wible

Mariaelena Bartesaghi

Department of Communication, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

Correspondence: Mariaelena Bartesaghi, Department of Commu-
nication, University of South Florida, CIS 1040, 4202 E. Fowler
Ave, Tampa, 33620 FL, USA.
Tel.: +1.813.974.2145 - Fax: +1.813.974.6817.
E-mail: mbartesaghi@usf.edu

Received for publication: 18 October 2019.
Accepted for publication: 8 November 2019.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-
Commercial 4.0 License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

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