The physician reluctance to seek mental health treatment

The recent suicides of an NYU resident and a medical student highlight the growing mental health problem among physicians and physicians-in-training in this country.  This crisis is certainly not exclusive to physicians, as evidenced by the suicides of designer Kate Spade and television personality Anthony Bourdain.  However, suicide among physicians is of particular concern.  A literature review of physician suicide in Medline and PubMed yielded alarming results …

Read more…