{"id":1052893,"date":"2010-05-08T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T08:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/high-risk-profession-suicide-rate-of-u-s-doctors-is-one-per-day\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:46:40","slug":"high-risk-profession-suicide-rate-of-u-s-doctors-is-one-per-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/high-risk-profession-suicide-rate-of-u-s-doctors-is-one-per-day.php","title":{"rendered":"High-risk profession: Suicide rate of U.S. doctors is one per day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c3f7e_200px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c3f7e_200px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a>More than a quarter of primary care doctors reported being \"burnt out,\" in part due to worsening time pressures and a chaotic work pace, which were \"strongly associated with low physician satisfaction.\"<\/p><p>300-400 doctors in the United States kill themselves every year, or roughly 1 per day. Male doctors have suicide rates 1.4 times that of the general population, while female doctors have twice the rate of depression and 2.3 times the suicide rate when compared with women who are not physicians.<\/p><p>References:<\/p><div>Help for Today's Tense, Frustrated Doctors. Medscape, 2009.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/710904\">http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/710904<\/a><\/div><div>Image source: Vincent van Gogh's 1890 painting At Eternity's Gate. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a>, public domain.<\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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