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Why Do Docs Kill Themselves More Than Any Other Profession?
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Why Do Docs Kill Themselves More Than Any Other Profession?

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Mar 22, 2023
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Alarming Statistics

Physicians take their lives more than any other profession, reported at 40 per 100,000.

That stat was presented at the 2018 American Psychiatric Association meeting.

A Missouri State Medical Associate study found that nearly one doctor dies by suicide every day.

The Physicians Foundation says that 55% of physicians know a doctor who co…

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