American Doctors Are Killing Themselves and No One Is Talking About It

Daily Beast ^ | 03/23/2015 | Gabrielle Glaser

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RE: Well terrorism is an attack on our way of life. It’s a worthy thing to react to.

I never said it wasn’t. I was referring to PERCENTAGE of death compared to the population.

Deaths by killing whether it is by terrorists or suicide are worthy things to react to.

Accidents are tragic to, but the difference between this and the other two is that accidents are NOT deliberate acts of killing while terrorism and suicides are.

RE: It’s the “and no one is talking about it” that makes it silly

Well, let’s talk about it then, I think it is an interesting thing to notice that Physicians are more prone to kill themselves relative to most other profession.

If it is because of stress, then let’s compare the rate of doctor suicides to say, Nurses or Police detectives. That would be interesting too.

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I see it as totally expected. People in a high stress profession with ready access to self medication SHOULD be killing themselves more often. If they were killing themselves significantly LESS often than the general population THAT would be interesting.

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Greg Miday was a promising young doctor with a prestigious oncology fellowship in St. Louis. He spoke conversational Spanish, volunteered with the homeless, and played the piano as if he’d been born to it. He had rugged good looks, with dark wavy hair and a tall, athletic build. Everybody—siblings, patients, friends, nurses, professors, fellow doctors, and above all, his physician-parents—adored him.

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All very nice, but it has nothing to do with why people commit suicide.

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RE: I see it as totally expected. People in a high stress profession with ready access to self medication SHOULD be killing themselves more often

SEE HERE:

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-suicidal-occupations-2011-10?op=1

That was three years ago.

I expected Nurses to be on the top 20 but they aren’t. I also did not see Border Patrol agents or Military Personnel, or Emergency Workers.

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What’s interesting there really is the small variations. Everybody in that 1.3x zone could easily just be statistical noise. We do that with a lot of stuff, a small statistical variation puts a group in a “most likely” situation and we ignore how small the variation really is.