DEADLY PROFESSION
Every year, between 300 and 400 doctors take their own lives (roughly one per day). No other profession has a higher suicide rate. And, in sharp contrast to the general population where male suicides outnumber female suicides 4 to 1, the rate among male and female doctors is the same. Undiagnosed and untreated depression is the culprit.
(Newsweek 4/28/08)