International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) - Resources: Groups at Risk - Helping Professions: Medical Profession
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| BBC - 'Suicide risk' for doctors and nurses Article published by BBC News reveals that nurses are four times more likely to commit suicide compared with people working outside medicine. - Read more http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/944503.stm | |
| JAMA - Confronting Depression and Suicide in Physicians Encourages treatment of depression and prevention of suicide in physicians by calling for a shift in professional attitudes and institutional policies to support physicians seeking help. - Read more http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/289/23/3161 | |
| Doctors who kill themselves: a study of the methods used for suicide Read an abstract of this article published by the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. - Read more http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/93/6/351 | |
| Suicide in high risk occupational groups - Doctors Read this resource offered by the Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford. - Read more http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/csr/resdoctors.html | |
| Treatment of mental disorders in seven physicians committing suicide Notes that current adequate treatment for depression seems to be as rare among physician victims as among suicides with major depressive disorders in the population. - Read more http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10434473&dopt=Abstract | |
| Clinicians- Survivors The American Association of Suicidology offers resources for clinicians who have lost a patient and/or family member to suicide. Participate in a study for clinician-survivors (6/15/2009). - Read more http://www.suicidology.org/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=PUB.1.150 | |
| Medical Student Distress and the Risk of Doctor Suicide NY Times article notes "studies have consistently shown that physicians have higher rates of suicide than the general population — 40 percent higher for male doctors and a staggering 130 percent higher for female doctors." - Read more http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/health/views/07chen.html?_r=1 | |
| NCBI - Suicide in Doctors Read an abstract of this study of risk according to gender, seniority and specialty in medical practitioners in England and Wales, 1979-1995. - Read more http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11297646 | |
| Physician Depression and Suicide Prevention Project Provides a guide prepared by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Learn about the AFSP film project on this topic. - Read more http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?page_id=05804002-E8F4-13AB-2D4B97A0815A2744 | |
| Suicide Rates Among Physicians: A Quantitative and Gender Assessment (Meta-Analysis) Explore this resource offered by the American Journal of Psychiatry. - Read more http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/12/2295 | |
| Suicide is top cause of early death in physicians - Far Higher than in General Population Browse to read this article by Doug Brunk found in the Find Articles collection. - Read more http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYD/is_5_38/ai_98830125/ | |
| Physician’s Suicide, A Read this case report prepared by Herbert Hendin, M.D., John T. Maltsberger, M.D. and Ann Pollinger Haas, Ph.D. - Read more http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/160/12/2094 | |
| Suicide high among female doctors Reveals that a study by Harvard Medical School researchers have found that a study of physician suicides in the U.S. has revealed that female doctors take their lives much more often. - Read more http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/02.03/11-suicide.html | |
| Humane Medicine Health Care: Man of Mars Article by J. Christopher A. Morrant, MB, BS, D(OBST)RCOG, DPM, FRCPC discusses the death of a colleague - Read more http://www.humanehealthcare.com/Article.asp?art_id=495 | |
| Self-Reported Depression and Suicide Attempts Among U.S. Women Physicians View this article, by Erica Frank, M.D., M.P.H. and Arden D. Dingle, M.D., published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. - Read more http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/156/12/1887 | |
