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Female MDs face greater suicide risk: study

Barbara Sibbald

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Female physicians are twice as likely to commit suicide as other women, a British study shows, while male doctors are less likely to kill themselves than other men. The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2001;55:296-300), was conducted at the Centre for Suicide

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Female physicians are twice as likely to commit suicide as other women, a British study shows, while male doctors are less likely to kill themselves than other men. The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2001;55:296-300), was conducted at the Centre for Suicide

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Female physicians are twice as likely to commit suicide as other women, a British study shows, while male doctors are less likely to kill themselves than other men. The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2001;55:296-300), was conducted at the Centre for Suicide

Key concepts: Commit, Epidemiology, Medicine, Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, Poison control, Injury prevention, Human factors and ergonomics

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