‘Doctors fear losing what they love’: Dr Tasha Port’s suicide shows medicine’s culture of silence lingers
Indrani Tharmanason hopes speaking about her daughter's death will lead to change.
Dr Tasha Port was preparing to submit her application for the paediatrician training program when she took her own life in June 2020.
Medicine had been her passion since high school, and her graduation ceremony in Queensland three years earlier was, as you expect, special.
“Tasha was very happy that she had made it — she was going to be a doctor,” says her mother, Indrani Tharmanason.
She loved her work, but through her life she had struggled with periods of depression. It meant the stress, long hours, night shifts and career uncertainty took a toll.
