Physician Death by Suicide: Problems Seeking Stakeholder Solutions
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Citation: Gunter TD (2016) Physician Death by Suicide: Problems Seeking Stakeholder Solutions. Arch Depress Anxiety 2(1): 020-025. DOI: 10.17352/24555460.000010 020 Researchers continue to struggle with case definition because the distinction between accidental death by self-inflicted injury and intentional death by self-inflicted injury is arbitrary, raising the concern that accidental death is “concealed suicide” [5,8]. In recent data, physicians appeared to be more likely to die both by accident and suicide than other healthcare providers, other persons with more than six years of formal education after high school, and the general US population [12]. While many researchers have focused on acknowledged intentional self-injury, it may be time to analyze all self-inflicted deaths to look for clues about risk-taking behavior and suicide in physicians.
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