Find resources relating to suicide and the medical profession.
Advanced| 'Suicide risk' for doctors and nurses - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/944503.stm Article published by BBC News reveals that nurses are four times more likely to commit suicide compared with people working outside medicine. - [Read more] |
| Confronting Depression and Suicide in Physicians - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/289/23/3161 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] |
| Doctors who kill themselves: a study of the methods used for suicide - http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/93/6/351 Read an abstract of this article published by the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. - [Read more] |
| Humane Medicine Health Care: Man of Mars - http://www.humanehealthcare.com/Article.asp?art_id=495 Article by J. Christopher A. Morrant, MB, BS, D(OBST)RCOG, DPM, FRCPC discusses the death of a colleague. - [Read more] |
| Medical community begins to address physician suicide - http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/06/28/medical_community_begins_to_address_physician_suicide/ Discover this article that was written by Stephen Smith and published in the Boston Globe. - [Read more] |
| Medical Surveillance Often Precedes Suicide Among Female Physicians in Finland: A Case-Control Study - http://www.joem.org/pt/re/joem/abstract.00043764-199711000-00013.htm;jsessionid=GY0L10ghDwsGrWV5wQv16XtLndr68RL701Tx5y1fCZQcf9h5dHfx!-1082563917!-949856145!8091!-1 Read an abstract of this paper published by the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Suicide in Doctors - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=11297646 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] |
| Nurses' grief reactions to a patient's suicide - http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3804/is_200201/ai_n9052724 Browse to read a review of this article that shares nurses need a support system to help them cope with grief after a patient's suicide. - [Read more] |
| Patient Suicide can Exact Huge Toll on Clinicians - http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/40/2/10 Aaron Levin notes when a patient commits suicide, the event sets in motion a train of personal and professional consequences that can be anticipated and planned for like other adverse events. - [Read more] |
| Physician Depression and Suicide Prevention Project - http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?page_id=05804002-E8F4-13AB-2D4B97A0815A2744 Provides a guide prepared by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Learn about the AFSP fil project on this topic. - [Read more] |
| Physician suicide: Norway - http://my.opera.com/Samson%20Isberg/blog/show.dml/221758 Reveals a main problem is that doctors feel they have nowhere to go when they need help, and a doctor treating himself is a poor physician. - [Read more] |
| Physician’s Suicide, A - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/160/12/2094 Read this case report prepared by Herbert Hendin, M.D., John T. Maltsberger, M.D. and Ann Pollinger Haas, Ph.D. - [Read more] |
| ScienceWeek - Psychiatry: On the High Rate of Physician Suicide - http://scienceweek.com/2005/sw050826-4.htm Read this article that notes the gap in suicide rates evidently begins as early as medical school, where overall suicide rates are higher than in the age-matched population. - [Read more] |
| Self-Reported Depression and Suicide Attempts Among U.S. Women Physicians - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/156/12/1887 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] |
| Suicide high among female doctors - http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/02.03/11-suicide.html 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] |
| Suicide in Doctors - http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/56/3/237 Read an abstract of this study that found, relative to the general population, NHS female doctors had about twice the expected suicide rate, whereas NHS male doctors had about half the expected suicide rate. - [Read more] |
| Suicide in high risk occupational groups - Doctors - http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/csr/resdoctors.html Read this resource offered by the Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford. - [Read more] |
| Suicide in high risk occupational groups - Female nurses - http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/csr/resnurses.html Notes that there is evidence from several countries that female nurses are at increased risk of suicide. Read this resource offered by the University of Oxford, Centre for Suicide Research. - [Read more] |
| Suicide in Physicians: Toward Prevention - http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/462619 Medscape Today offers this article by Michael Myers, MD, Carla Fine, MS. Read for details. - [Read more] |
| Suicide is top cause of early death in physicians - Far Higher than in General Population - http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYD/is_5_38/ai_98830125 Browse to read this article by Doug Brunk found in LookSMart's Find Articles collection. - [Read more] |
| Suicide Rates Among Physicians: A Quantitative and Gender Assessment (Meta-Analysis) - http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/161/12/2295 Explore this resource offered by the American Journal of Psychiatry. - [Read more] |
| Talking and Walking Suicide-Educating Nursing Students about Suicide - http://www.icms.com.au/anzcmhn2006/abstract/57.htm Read this abstract provided by Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses 32nd Annual International Conference. - [Read more] |
| Treatment of mental disorders in seven physicians committing suicide - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10434473&dopt=Abstract 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] |
| Why Did Eight Nurses Commit Suicide? - http://www.doh.gov.ph/sphh/eight_nurses.htm Read this article published by the Society of Phiippine Health History. - [Read more] |