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Fears About Discussing Patients’ Suicidal Thoughts Unfounded, Study Says

Despite some physicians’ reluctance to discuss suicide with depressed patients for fear it could foster feelings of completing or thinking about the act, a study published in the May issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry indicates that fear is …

 

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Suicidal Thoughts Plague 1 in 16 U.S. Surgeons

One in 16 surgeons had suicidal thoughts in the past year, according to a survey of nearly 8,000 U.S. surgeons published in a recent issue of Archives of Surgery. The prevalence among surgeons was similar to that in the …

 

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