Why Are Doctors Plagued by Depression and Suicide?

Molly Ferguson for Stat

[Our comment:  We are reading more and more about burn-out affecting doctors. There has always been tremendous pressure in medical school and most doctors have to work very long hours.  But what is new?  Are we less reticent about talking about it?  Could one of the causes be exposure to electro-magnetic radiation from and wide use of wireless technology (fostering less communication, sleep disturbances) - now ubiquitous in universities, doctors' offices, and hospitals? And, as mentioned here, the greater "dehumanization" of medicine?]

Why are doctors plagued by depression and suicide? A crisis comes into focus
by Judith Graham @judith_graham, statnews.com, 21 July 2016

A sense of angst was rattling students at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. One of their peers had taken his life days before.

Professor Mikel Snow felt the dark undercurrent and knew he had to speak up. So, for the first time, he told his students about his decades-long struggle with depression. As word spread, students across the campus started contacting him to discuss the suicide — and to share their own psychological distress.

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