{"id":35376,"date":"2016-07-25T23:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35376"},"modified":"2016-07-25T23:26:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T05:26:36","slug":"why-are-doctors-plagued-by-depression-and-suicide-a-crisis-comes-into-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/07\/why-are-doctors-plagued-by-depression-and-suicide-a-crisis-comes-into-focus.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35377\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/A_bedridden_sick_young_woman_being_examined_by_a_doctor_Wellcome_V0017088.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35377\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35377\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/A_bedridden_sick_young_woman_being_examined_by_a_doctor_Wellcome_V0017088.jpg\" alt=\"A doctor at work\" width=\"595\" height=\"446\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sick, bedridden young woman, accompanied by her anxious mother, is examined by a physician in this 1838 engraving from the collection of London\u2019s Wellcome Institute.<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rates of suicide are unusually high among physicians and medical students:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/21\/depression-suicide-physicians\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/21\/depression-suicide-physicians\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Very sad. \u00a0And an especially tragic waste of human potential. \u00a0So much talent lost. \u00a0So much service left unperformed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why is this so? \u00a0What can be done?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(And how can <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormonism<\/a> be blamed for it?)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Newport Beach, California<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Rates of suicide are unusually high among physicians and medical students: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/21\/depression-suicide-physicians\/ \u00a0 Very sad. \u00a0And an especially tragic waste of human potential. \u00a0So much talent lost. \u00a0So much service left unperformed. \u00a0 Why is this so? \u00a0What can be done? \u00a0 (And how can Mormonism be blamed for it?) \u00a0 Posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? 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