Support a burned-out colleague and hold a safety frame — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes active time after reading. You are a psychiatry registrar speaking with a junior doctor colleague who has asked to talk after handover. ^[3]

Candidate instructions. Your colleague is exhausted, cynical, made a near-miss error, and has passive suicidal thoughts after a complaint. Respond with warmth and professionalism, normalise help-seeking without minimising risk, assess suicide risk sensitively, discuss fitness for remaining duties, offer concrete support pathways (GP, doctor health service/PHP, supervisor), and name organisational factors without dumping all responsibility on the individual. Do not shame, lecture, or invent legal section numbers. ^[2][3]