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Interesting side note about suicide among physicians (in the U.S. at least), every state license or hospital privileges (including renewals) I have applied for asks “have you been diagnosed with or received treatment for a mental health disease such as depression, anxiety, etc”. Obviously any rational person would at least hesitate to seek mental health treatment if it meant they could incur increased scrutiny just to continue to do their job, much less knowing that their peers (and sometimes competitors) on the hospital credentialling committee would be aware of their struggles. I have personally known at least 8 friends / coworkers in the medical field who have committed suicide since I entered the field and I cannot help but imagine that this contributed to at least some of them.