America’s doctors kill themselves at unprecedented rates
by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
Friday, April 10, 2015
According to a 2005 article in the medical journal JAMA, male doctors are 70 percent more likely to kill themselves than other male professionals. Female doctors are an astonishing 250 to 400 percent more likely to take their lives than their non-doctor counterparts.
Why do U.S. doctors kill themselves at such an astonishingly high rate? While no one cause is obviously to blame, concerned observers are increasingly pointing the finger at a medical system that, from day one, fails to support or actively undermines students and doctors who may be struggling with mental illness.
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According to Pamela Wible, a Eugene, Oregon, family practitioner who researches and writes about the phenomenon of doctor suicide, an estimated 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year. That’s approximately the size of the average graduating medical school class.
If all of those doctors were general practitioners with an average caseload of 2,300 patients, that would mean a million people’s doctors killing themselves each year.
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