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Physician Suicide - Cases and Commentaries (Paperback)
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Physician Suicide - Cases and Commentaries (Paperback)
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Physician Suicide examines the multiple risk factors that account
for the higher rates of burnout, depressive symptoms, and suicide
risk physicians experience compared with the general population.
Suicide is typically caused by a convergence of factors, chief
among these are untreated or inadequately managed mental health
conditions. Physicians are less likely to seek professional help
for these conditions-in part, because of fear of professional
repercussions-and many seek to address their symptoms by
self-medicating with alcohol or drugs. Burnout is especially common
and is frequently due to workload, work inefficiency, lack of
autonomy and meaning, and work-home conflict. The author explores
these issues through the lens of a series of beautifully written
and fascinating case studies that allow the reader to get inside
the minds of his subjects and understand their lives and the
stressors they face. The only volume of its kind, it provides an
in-depth and nuanced approach to the topic of physician suicide in
the context of the broader topic of physician health and wellbeing:
* The book covers the full range of physician mental health issues,
from lifestyle and professional expectations and burnout, through
depression, anxiety, addictions, personality disorders, and aging,
carefully noting the many interactions with suicide and suicidal
behavior. * Prevention of these diverse problems-at the individual
and organizational level-is addressed, with emphasis on the
response of health care organizations and institutions to the issue
of physician health and wellbeing, and the impact that
well-organized physician well-being committees, taking on the
function of a physician health program, can have on individual
physicians.* The chapter-long case studies resemble short stories
that realistically capture the mental health challenges doctors
confront in the cultural context of medical training and
professional practice. These represent the core of the book, and
they succeed in making the issues discussed "personal" and engaging
for the reader.* Accompanying each case study is a concise
literature review that offers commentary and emphasizes the most
important points. A detailed reference list is also offered for
readers who want more extensive background material.* The author
calls clearly upon the medical profession to take serious actions
to improve physician health and thereby reduce the number of
physicians who kill themselves each year. * "Physician Suicide" is
a case-based textbook of physician health and wellbeing that can be
used in courses teaching physicians and medical students about
self-care. There is little mention in the health literature of the
daily pressures inherent in the physician lifestyle, which may lead
to unintended consequences, of which suicide is the most extreme.
Physician Suicide is an attempt to document the pain and suffering
that physicians are trained to deny, especially in front of their
patients, in the hope that such discussion may improve the lives of
current generations of physicians and prevent further suffering in
future generations.
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