Maybe the rumor that Doctors are not allowed to heal cancer patients except with approved methods contributes to their personal tragedies.

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Maybe the rumor that Doctors are not allowed to heal cancer patients except

with " approved methods " contributes to their personal tragedies.

 

Note that the example here, Dr. " Arthur " , who suffered from bipolar

disorder, told his mother that

he had gone off lithium>

 

There is a slight possibility that although Dr. Arthur knew

everything--maybe he had not tried B vitamins to control his Schizophrenia!

 

Lorenzo

 

 

 

See the whole article about the hidden tragedy of Doctors and suicide

............. at; http://www.medicalpost.com/

 

" Physicians are twice as likely as the general population to commit

suicide........

................

By Celia Milne

 

For Dr. Arthur Sommer-Rotenberg, who took his own life in 1992 at the age

of 36, being a doctor was part of the problem. " They have too much

knowledge, " says Doris Sommer-Rotenberg, his mother, who has now helped

established the first North American Chair in Suicide Studies, at the

University of Toronto, in his name. On one of the last times mother and son

had dinner, Arthur, who suffered from bipolar disorder, told his mother that

he had gone off lithium.

 

As a physician, he knew what the chemical side-effects were, and he told

her he thought the drug would negatively affect his heart. " He had a way of

beating it, " says Sommer-Rotenberg grimly. " But of course, he didn't. "

 

Physicians succumb to suicide's dark tendrils at a higher rate than other

people. There are many reasons for this. For one, doctors are typically more

reluctant to surrender their care to others, a problem that becomes

magnified when physicians treating physicians are in turn less aggressive

with treatment.

 

Additionally, all over the country, rates of burnout, depression and

emotional exhaustion are high among doctors...........

 

 

The rates and reasons for physician suicide are extremely disturbing. Dr.

Merry Miller from the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at

East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn., recently lost four

physician friends to suicide, prompting her to write " The Painful Truth:

Physicians are not invincible. " The piece, in which she explores how and why

doctors are vulnerable, was published last October in the Southern Medical

Journal. Dr. Merry uses figures from the literature to demonstrate that

doctors are more than twice as likely as the general population to kill

themselves (between 28 and 40 per 100,000, versus 12.3 per 100,000). Suicide

rates for women physicians are approximately four times that of women in the

general population. " Physicians are encouraged to disregard themselves and

deny their own needs, " she writes. " "

 

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