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Doctors are dying....
Topic Started: Mar 23 2015, 01:27 PM (187 Views)
kluurs
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Troubling story that deserves some attention. The scary part is that docs seeking help get a millstone of intervention.
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Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
How does that compare to doctor suicide rates in other countries and time periods? :blink:
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Copper
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Shortstop

How many of these doctors played football?
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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jon-nyc
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There are many theories about why so many doctors kill themselves. They face the pressures of “assembly-line medicine,” merciless scheduling demands, fights with insurance companies, growing regulations, and an explosion in scientific literature with which their knowledge must remain current. Their debt burdens often total hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they work in constant fear of malpractice suits.


My translation: There are many theories about why doctors kill themselves. Let's list some ridiculous ones....

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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MainerMikeBrown
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Becoming a doctor and also being a doctor is incredibly difficult. They have to go through so much.
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Steve Miller
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The little-noticed, little-discussed trend has enormous implications. Since the average annual caseload of most family doctors is roughly 2,300 patients, 400 physician deaths could mean that a million Americans lose their doctors to suicide each year.


Ugh.

There are 100 reasons why this story troubles me, and the possibility that the suicides contribute to a shortage of doctors isn't even on the radar.
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