Medical know-how raises suicide risk for doctors
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 14:49
in Health & Medicine
CHICAGO (AP) -- There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year - a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by....
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