Physician suicide is a pervasive issue in the medical field, especially among women, according to the results of nationwide cohort study.
In a recent JAMA Psychiatry article, Hirsh Makhija, MS, a postgraduate researcher at the University of California San Diego, and colleagues detailed troubling evidence of worsened mental health among physicians compared with the general population.
As physicians care for others, their own well-being is “often overlooked,” Makhija told Healio.
“Stigma surrounding mental health care, along with fears of jeopardizing their licensure, further