Suicide by psychiatrists: a study of medical specialists among 18,730 consecutive physician deaths during a five-year period, 1967-72.
This report is of suicide by psychiatrists from 953 suicides in 18,730 consecutive deaths of U.S. physicians during a five-year period 1967-72. It demonstrates that psychiatrists suicide regularly, year-by-year, at rates about twice those expected; and these differences are statistically significant.
D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D008875:Middle Aged; D011570:Psychiatry; D013038:Specialization; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States