Oklahoma medical groups expand free therapy program for doctors amid COVID-19 fallout

StateImpact Oklahoma

Dr. Mary Clarke says there's an age-old problem: doctors don't talk about their own problems. She is the president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association. That group saw trouble coming. Doctors, who already tend to struggle with mental health, started dealing with something plaguing all of us for the past 18 months: the pandemic. Financial struggles, family separation and more created even more risk factors for the state's physicians.