Pamela Laine Wible was born in 1967 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1] to physician parents: her mother is a psychiatrist and her father was a pathologist.
[2] She would accompany her father in his work in the morgue, and she spent time visiting state mental hospitals with her mother.
[7] Wible began to experience suicidal ideation due to depression and pressures related to her job[8][9] when she became increasingly frustrated with short patient-appointments and other restrictions, and so she stopped her work in the year 2004, and then in 2005 she held a series of "town hall" meetings where she invited community members to write out what they felt would be the features of an "ideal clinic".
[7] In the same year Wible opened up a new clinic in the city of Eugene, Oregon which was based on the recommendations from the community.
[13][14] Wible's work on doctor suicide prevention is featured in the documentary film Do No Harm: Exposing the Hippocratic Hoax, by filmmaker Robyn Symon.