physician suicide

The physician reluctance to seek mental health treatment

By Sara Reader, MD, MPH for KevinMD.com The recent suicides of an NYU resident and a medical student highlight the growing mental health problem among physicians and physicians-in-training in this country.  This crisis is certainly not exclusive to physicians, as evidenced by the suicides of designer Kate Spade and television personality Anthony Bourdain.  However, suicide…

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