Healio (4/19, Herpen) reports, “Incidence of suicide was higher among physicians than in the general population and affected female physicians significantly more than male,” investigators concluded in a study that “sought to compare the death rate due to suicide of physicians in Spain with the general population and to examine differences based on gender.” The study revealed that “rates of death by suicide were higher among physicians (1,295.7 per 100,000 deaths) than those in the general population (813.21 per 100,000).” The findingswere published in the April issue of the journal Psychiatry
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— “Suicide higher among physicians than general population “Robert Herpen, Healio, April 19, 2022