Suicide higher among physicians than general population

Incidence of suicide was higher among physicians than in the general population and affected female physicians significantly more than male, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research.
“The medical practice has undergone numerous and important changes since its beginnings as a liberal profession up until the present. In some way, doctors have experienced a reduction in their autonomy by the increase in administrative tasks and health care pressure,” Maria Irigoyen-Otinano, MD, of the University Hospital Santa Maria, in Lerida, Spain, and colleagues wrote.
Irigoyen-Otinano

Incidence of suicide was higher among physicians than in the general population and affected female physicians significantly more than male, according to a study published in Psychiatry Research.
“The medical practice has undergone numerous and important changes since its beginnings as a liberal profession up until the present. In some way, doctors have experienced a reduction in their autonomy by the increase in administrative tasks and health care pressure,” Maria Irigoyen-Otinano, MD, of the University Hospital Santa Maria, in Lerida, Spain, and colleagues wrote.
Irigoyen-Otinano