When I was an oncology fellow in Vienna, a colleague who hadattended rounds with me on the ward went home afterward andstrangled herself. Only later was it learned that she had sufferedfrom depression. In the course of that same year, three morephysicians in my immediate circle — two residents anda department head — took their own lives. This stunningseries was my first encounter with physician suicide, and itleft many of us doctors with an important message: we must carenot only for our patients but also for ourselves. In an effortto prevent . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Schernhammer is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, both in Boston.
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