Medscape (3/7, Lehmann, Subscription Publication) reports “a physician’s specialty can make a difference when it comes to having suicidal thoughts.” Physicians “who specialize in family medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, and psychiatry reported double the rates of suicidal thoughts than” physicians “in oncology, rheumatology, and pulmonary medicine, according to Doctors’ Burden: Medscape Physician Suicide Report2023.” There is “also a generational divide among physicians who reported suicidal thoughts.” Gen-X physicians (age 42-56) and millennials (age 27-41) “were more likely to report these thoughts than were baby boomers (age 57-75) and the Silent Generation (age 76-95).”
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