suicide – Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds

How a doctor’s suicide broke the silence – Conversations – ABC Radio

Gastroenterologist Andrew Bryant’s active, social and positive exterior gave no hint of the depression he was suffering. Days after his tragic death his wife Susan wrote an email making it clear she and her adult children were not ashamed of the way he died. It went viral (CW: suicide) — Read on http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/doctors-suicide-susan-bryant-andrew-bryant/13335414

2019 guidelines to help anaesthetists at risk of suicide

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Suicide amongst anaesthetists

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A perfect storm

"The statistics on doctor suicide are horrifying… and doctors-in-training are particularly susceptible."#MentalHealth#crazysocks4docshttps://t.co/169YDALwv3 — Steve Robson (@DrSteveRobson) November 9, 2018

South African study on prehospital providers attitudes towards responding to suicidal patients

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Important survey on well being of anaesthetists & intensivists in UK . Please participate & share!

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Questions about grief

Trigger warning : content describing suicide and mental health issues'Many people are afraid of suicide and don’t have a language to talk about it" Lets talk about it, lets not be afraid any more. or at least lets try. together#crazysocks4docs #MH4Docs https://t.co/t2gzXIs280 — Minh Le Cong (@ketaminh) May 26, 2018

Time to cry and reflect. True story, not fictionalised

Doctors’ wellbeing: learning from Richard’s death … Dr Kate Harding writes in #MJAInSight … "Colleagues are hit hard by the loss of a doctor … to #suicide … remorse and guilt that I feel as Richard’s wife are felt by his friends & workmates too https://t.co/DH5HX1tJta pic.twitter.com/yZl9OV6bjg — MJA (@theMJA) May 13, 2018

How to remain a doctor?

Heart-rending stuff. "What I am pondering is how to remain in medicine. The fear of a complaint looms large, given the consequences for my husband, one of the best doctors I have known. How to remain a doctor, when I couldn’t even keep my husband alive?"https://t.co/4bIxqYbxyM — Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) February 24, 2018

Doctors call for action to prevent suicide in medical profession

It's a tragic reality that doctors are at greater risk of suicidal ideation than other professionals. A forum of 82 doctors have handed down their recommendations to help turn this around https://t.co/8xWZhu2ORh — AMA Media (@ama_media) December 19, 2017

2017 NSW Health response to doctor suicides

Glad to see @NSWHealth publishing this plan – I look forward to the proposed changes being adopted, particularly around safe work hrs, unrostered overtime and fair parental leave despite 👍🏼 https://t.co/tGmvJJy9xN #MH4Docs #JMOWellbeingPlan #juniordoctors — Dr Kate (@drkateblog) November 17, 2017 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

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