Tag: physician suicide
Remembering Dr. Lorna Breen on National Physician Suicide Awareness Day
September 17, 2020, marked the third annual National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. This is a day to remember physicians who have taken their own lives.
Harnessing Grief Into Action: A Tribute to a Remarkable Woman
Dr. Sangeeta Mahajan is a remarkable woman. She is a consultant anesthetist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. She lost her 20-year-old son, Saagar...
National Physician Suicide Awareness Day: We Refuse to Forget
September 17, 2019 was the second annual National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. As I wrote here last year, it is a day to commemorate colleagues lost to suicide and...
When the “S” Word Is Unspoken
Note: this is a highly disguised story for reasons that will be immediately obvious.
I got an invitation a few months ago to give a Grand Rounds at a medical...
Courage in the Face of Heartbreaking Loss
After my plenary lecture at the International Practitioner Health Summit “The Wounded Healer” in London last October, I was invited to sit in on a bereavement group which was...
A knock on the door
30 years ago, a young doctor in overwhelm had planned to kill himself. He is now the President of a specialist College and wrote recently of his despair and...
Pearls of Wisdom From Four Women Who Have Lost a Physician...
Enjoy this lovely article by Dr Michael Myers, a psychiatrist who specializes in physicians' health and has cared for doctors for many decades now. He brings his wealth of...
Medical training is more stressful than the army
A recent systematic literature review of physician suicide confirmed that doctors now have the highest suicide rate of any profession and stated that:
"It's very surprising that the suicide rate among...
