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Raising awareness of depressed physicians in honor of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

By The DO Staff

09.15.22

Ionce told a fellow physician who was suicidal to go to the ER and that there was nothing I could do. I was on call. I was also burned out and depressed, though I didn’t know it at the time. My immediate thought in that moment was “Why would a doctor be depressed and suicidal?” This happened during my first job out of residency back in 2012, and it remains one of my biggest regrets.

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