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Preliminary 2023 data in the report shows that while there has been a 22% decrease in resident suicide since 2021, there is still an overall increase over the past 20 years.

Physicians are more than twice as likely to die by suicide, and surgeons are at particularly high risk due at least in part to the US neurosurgeon shortage.

Working in the health care profession is a privilege, yet it also carries some personal risks. Only when clinicians who have sought and successfully received help for depression, suicidality, and other mental illness come forward to share their experience will more of clinicians in need of psychiatric treatment feel comfortable seeking and receiving that care.

The US neurologist shortage is reducing patients access to care and increasing physician burnout, siphoning off members of a critical workforce that isnt growing fast enough.

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Introduction Administrative burden is a major cause of clinician burnout, which in turn can lead to low employee satisfaction and have a negative impact on patient safety.

Kedar Suresh, an IIT-Madras second-year BTech student, is said to have committed suicide in his hostel room.

While 1 percent of cardiologists have attempted suicide, an additional 8 percent have thought about attempting suicide