Posted by Deneb on November 14, 2005, at 22:10:33
In reply to Another psychiatrist suicides....................., posted by ace on October 17, 2005, at 3:35:00
> There is a LOT of psychiatrists who kill themselves. Lets not fool ourselves.
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> Me myself, going into psychiatry, am very prepared for the strains of the practice.Are you going to be a p-doc? It sounds like an interesting profession...you get to meet so many interesting people.
I read this article at Medscape called "Physicians Are Not Invincible".The Painful Truth: Physicians Are Not Invincible
[South Med J 93(10):966-972, 2000. © 2000 Southern Medical Association]I can't post it here because a password is needed, but I believe one can easily get a password.
It talks about how there are idealized expectations for physicians and how physicians struggle with these expectations. When there are emotional problems, they tend to be perceived as professional failings.
Apparently, physicians are 2 times as likely to kill themselves as the general population. P-docs have the highest suicide rate and pediatricians have the lowest. Approximately 73% of p-docs report a history of depression.
Deneb
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