“Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus”

“Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus” July 25, 2016

 

A doctor at work
A sick, bedridden young woman, accompanied by her anxious mother, is examined by a physician in this 1838 engraving from the collection of London’s Wellcome Institute.
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

Rates of suicide are unusually high among physicians and medical students:

 

https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/21/depression-suicide-physicians/

 

Very sad.  And an especially tragic waste of human potential.  So much talent lost.  So much service left unperformed.

 

Why is this so?  What can be done?

 

(And how can Mormonism be blamed for it?)

 

Posted from Newport Beach, California

 


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