Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Aug 2021
Suicidal Ideation and Attitudes Regarding Help Seeking in US Physicians Relative to the US Working Population.
To evaluate the prevalence of suicidal ideation (SI) and attitudes regarding help seeking among US physicians relative to the general US working population. ⋯ In this national study conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 in 15 US physicians had thoughts of taking their own life in the last year, which exceeded the prevalence of SI among US workers in other fields.