Doctors Facing Complaints Get Severe Depression And Suicidal Thoughts
Friday, January 23, 2015 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
UK doctors subject to complaints procedures are at significant risk of becoming severely depressed and suicidal, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open. Those referred to the UK professional regulator, the General Medical Council, seem to be most at risk of mental ill health, the findings suggest. The researchers base their findings on an anonymised online survey of more than 95,000 UK doctors in 2012, all of whom were members of the British Medical Association (BMA). read more