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2023-07-21 Britain

A silent emergency: The rise in suicides among UK doctors

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-21 08:29|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 You've got a job working for a government department providing minimal required services for a customer base that can't escape.
Sound almost like the Postal Service.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-21 09:04|| 2023-07-21 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Once a medical system requires euthanasia protocols to keep costs in line, the doctors are in grave danger. Only God can help. The prodigal Europeans needs to return to Him stat.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-21 10:10|| 2023-07-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 In the Age of Sail the Royal Navy ship's doctor would drink themselves to death ...slowly. Futility does that to people.

Posted by magpie 2023-07-21 12:08|| 2023-07-21 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Not Covid Seppuku.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-21 12:18|| 2023-07-21 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 From the article:

Around the world, doctors are two to five times more likely than the general population to die by suicide with female and junior doctors especially high risk.

Here in the U.S. doctors have also been retiring at an increasing rate, and not just because the Baby Boom cohort reached retirement age, while the numbers heading into medical school have not been enough to replace them, never mind meet the increased needs of an aging population. And all that before the demands of COVID protocols.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-21 13:16|| 2023-07-21 13:16|| Front Page Top

#6 The shortfall in new doctors is being made up for by various ‘almost a doctors’ like PAs and NPs.

Posted by Glenmore 2023-07-21 18:48|| 2023-07-21 18:48|| Front Page Top

#7 the rise of the various Urgent Care and similar medical outlets has been of enormous benefit in the USA

it has probably save many $ billions and prevented some staff shortages at hospitals

Posted by lord garth 2023-07-21 19:52|| 2023-07-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

#8 The shortfall in new doctors is being made up for by various ‘almost a doctors’ like PAs and NPs

Who I suspect can only shut up and do what the Corporation tells them to do.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-07-21 20:12|| 2023-07-21 20:12|| Front Page Top

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