Suicide rates among physicians: a quantitative and gender assessment (meta-analysis).

By E. Schernhammer, Graham A Colditz. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2004

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Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases. (2010, result): “FiGure 2 Rate of publication of statistically significant versus non-significant results: all studies. After excluding Misakian and Bero (1998)30 from inception cohort studies, pooled OR = 3.”
Factors Related to Physician Burnout and Its Consequences: A Review (2018, background): “[29,30] Suicide rate in female physicians is 2.”
Burnout and Suicidal Ideation among U.S. Medical Students (2008, background): “The suicide rate among male physicians is more than 40% higher than among men in the general population, whereas that of female physicians is a staggering 130% higher than among women in the general population (1, 2).”
The importance of perceived autonomy support for the psychological health and work satisfaction of health professionals: Not only supervisors count, colleagues too! (2011, neutral): “More dramatically, some studies show that dentist, physicians and veterinarians have a higher suicide rate than graduates in other ﬁelds and than the general population (e.g., Boxer et al. 1995; Hem et al. 2005; Schernhammer and Colditz 2004; Stack 1996, 2001; Wasserman 1992).”