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Physician suicide at epidemic levels in USA, India →

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Today a physician told me she lost 3 colleagues to suicide in the last 2 months. 

Loma Linda Hospital just lost 3 young doctors to suicide in 6 months. 

Mount Sinai had 3 docs jump in less than 2 years—from the same building.

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What I’ve Learned from 1,710 Doctor Suicides →

Doctor Suicide Altar

Article featured in The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune.

Five years ago today I was at a memorial. Another suicide. Our third doctor in 18 months.

Everyone kept whispering, “Why?”

I was determined to find out.

So I started counting dead doctors.

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Physician suicide book banned, stolen from hospital →

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Letter I just received from an anesthesiologist:

Pamela,

I had previously written you about the death of one of our residents in the anesthesia department [of a prominent US hospital]. I had mentioned another death [confirmed suicide] of a former internal medicine resident who had just started his fellowship.

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