Confronting depression and suicide in physicians: a consensus statement.

By Claudia Center, Miriam Davis, T. Detre, D. Ford, W. Hansbrough, H. Hendin, J. Laszlo, David A. Litts, J. Mann, P. Mansky and 5 more. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Suicide and Suicidal Behavior (2008, background): “The experience of persistent stress also may explain why persons in some occupations, such as physicians (121), military personnel (122–125), and police officers (126), may have higher rates of suicidal behavior; however, this increased risk may be explained by the demographic and personality charac”
Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care (2017, background): “Physicians are at increased risk of suicide compared with the US general population [50], with the suicide rate among male physicians 40 percent higher than that of other males in the population and the suicide rate among female physicians 130 percent higher than that of other females in the populat”
Special report: suicidal ideation among American surgeons. (2011, background): “discourages admission of personal vulnerabilities and places a low priority on physicians’ mental health, may also be barriers to seeking professional help.(1) Surgeons’reluctancetoseekmentalhealthtreatmentmay haveimplicationsforpatientsaswellastheaffectedsurgeons.”
Burnout and Suicidal Ideation among U.S. Medical Students (2008, background): “medical students and suggest that the increased risk for suicide among physicians may begin in medical school (1, 3).”
Burnout: Moving beyond the status quo. (2017, background): “…stigmatizing label than depression has not been conclusively answered yet (Bianchi, Verkuilen, Brisson, Schonfeld, & Laurent, 2016), a problem attached to depression is indeed stigma—an obstacle to help seeking (Boerema et al., 2016; Center et al., 2003; Gold, Andrew, Goldman, & Schwenk, 2016).”