• CMAJ · Jul 1996

    Suicide totals for MDs sad reminder of stresses facing medicine, conference told.

    • C Johnston.
    • CMAJ. 1996 Jul 1; 155 (1): 109-11.

    AbstractA recent conference on physician health cosponsored by the CMA and American Medical Association provided some sobering news. One physician reported on the suicides of physicians practising in the US. Another reported that inroads being made by managed health care is affecting physician morale. "Physicians' lifetime calling of caring for the sick is being called into question," said Dr. Patricia Tighe. "They have become like factory workers who can't take pride in their work and are denied a sense of belonging. They are part of a corporate enterprise, to be dispensed with when they are not profitable, and subjected to penalties if their work doesn't measure up".

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