Why medicine leads the professions in suicide, and what we can do about it
- Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Suicide is more prevalent among doctors than any other profession. Burnout could be a reason.Iuri Silvestre/Shutterstock.comEarlier this month, one of us visited a prominent U.S. medical school to give a lecture on the topic of burnout and how physicians can find more fulfillment in the practice of medicine. Sadly, that very day, a fourth-year...
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