STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Opinion: STAT+: The epidemic of learned helplessness in physicians “Hordes of brilliant, graduate-degree-holding professionals in their 40s, 50s, and beyond act helpless at work,” writes STAT columnist Frances Mei Hardin. https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/doctors-learned-helplessness-chief-complaint-frances-mei-hardin/ statnews.com