Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Among Physicians- Chronic Self-Destruction?

Simon, Wayne A.; Lumry, Gayle K.

doi:10.1097/00043764-197011000-00023

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“…The suicidal act is not an isolated event unrelated to the rest of an individual's life, nor is it solely a reaction to external pressures; it is exceedingly complex, the outcome of a variety of internal and external forces in one's life [6].…”

Section: The Suicidal Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Suicide among Physicians

Ross

1971

Psychiatry in Medicine

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A review of the international literature of the past 75 years of suicide among physicians indicates that (1) suicide among physicians is high, (2) suicide among female physicians is higher than among male physicians, (3) physician suicide varies from country to country, with the highest rate among the Danes, the next among British and the next among U.S.A. physicians, (4) there is a high incidence of psychiatric morbidity, alcoholism and drug addiction among physicians who suicide, (5) as in suicides among other groups, there are significant variable correlates of age, gender, medical school affiliation, geographic residence, type of medical practice and specialty, the state of physical and emotional health, the use of alcohol and drugs, and professional and psychosocial factors, and (6) preventive action is both possible and desirable.

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Section: The Suicidal Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many papers [3][4][5][6][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66] concerning the physician as a patient note the defensiveness of doctors about admitting psychological problems. Several have stressed the particular difficulties of psychiatrically treating one's colleague [4-6, 17, 37, 59, 61-68].…”

Section: The Physician As a Patientmentioning

confidence: 99%