Physician Death by Suicide: Problems Seeking Stakeholder Solutions
Journal Title: Archives of Depression and Anxiety - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Each year approximately 400 physicians die by suicide in the United States, leaving an estimated one million patients without their physicians [1-5]. Physicians are two to three times more likely to die by suicide than members of the general population and are more likely to die by suicide than other professionals [6,7]. Compounding the tragedy is that for decades we have been aware that medicine is the deadliest profession [8]. The earliest articles located for this review date to 1897 and 1921 [9] and the earliest specific data supporting the statement that physicians were at greater risk than other professionals was a 1927 review of 1921 death data [10]. More physicians in the United States died by suicide than by motor vehicle accidents, plane crashes, drowning, and homicides combined in the late 1960’s [11] and the statistics could go on. Suffice it to say that the trend remains at best unchanged, and at worst worsening.
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