I was reading a medical journal the other day while I was taking a break from studying at the library, and I read an interesting article about the rates of suicide among doctors.
According to a study conducted, the rate of successful suicides is higher among doctors, especially the female doctors compared to others. It said that the working hours and the pressure and the stress which leads them to think of death as the best way out.
So reasons are:
- Amount of stress and pressure they are always under, along with their long working hours.
- How much their private and social lives are affected, leaving them a bit isolated from their families and loved ones, not to mention, leading to so many problems because of their constant absence from everything around them.
- Easier access to drugs which they're very aware of their effects, and so their attempts are more successful.
- Sexual harrassement, especially within women who work in male dominating areas in medicine like surgery.
It's probably because, doctors spend a lot of time trying to solve other people's problems, that they take theirs for granted, and keep neglecting them as well as their own emotional well being, until they reach a point where it gets out of control, and their only possible solution to all their problems is by killing themselves.
Posted by Noors at 10:22 PM
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