Suicide among doctors
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Suicide among doctors refers to physicians or medical trainees dying by suicide.
Studies report that physicians are more likely to die by suicide than the general population and even people with similar academic training who are not physicians.[1]
The suicide mortality rate is about the same among male and female doctors,[2] and significantly higher than the general population.[3][citation needed] Female physicians are at higher risk of attempting suicide than men,[2][4] showing rates over 250% higher among women and about 70% higher among men versus the general population. In the United States of America, an estimated 300 to 400 doctors die by suicide each year, a rate of 28 to 40 per 100,000 or more than double that of general population.[5] 9% of American male physicians and 11% of American female physicians reported having suicidal thoughts in Medscape's Physician Suicide Report 2023.[6]