Recently, a doctor has committed suicide because of depression, reveals a brutal fact: the doctor is at high risk of depression.
According to Australia's 14,000 doctors and medical students in the survey published in October 2013, the proportion of doctors suffering from depression is four times the general population, in the previous year, one tenth of the production of doctors and medical students She had suicidal thoughts.
From the point of view suicide rate over the past few decades studies have shown that a doctor's suicide rate higher than the normal population, male doctors suicide rate 40% higher than the general male population and female doctors suicide rate is higher than the general female population 130 %. Compared to other professions, doctor's suicide rate is high, male doctors suicide rate 70% higher than other occupations male and female doctors suicide rate is 400% higher than women in other occupations.
This trend is from the beginning of medical school, the survey found that, at the time of entering medical school, medical school freshmen and new compared to other schools, there is no difference in terms of depression and other mental problems, but wait until graduation, suffering from depression the proportion of medical graduates disease and other mental disorders was significantly higher than other schools graduates.
The results of these studies and surveys revealed that depression is one of the occupational physicians, and began medical school. Another study found that 30 years of age young doctor very serious mental problems, 6 percent of them have serious mental problems, it is twice the general population. The cause of this phenomenon is the main reason young doctors of long working hours, they causing extreme fatigue, many doctors rely on alcohol to relieve because of depression caused by the effect of alcohol, further exacerbating the doctors of depressive symptoms.
Another reason is that long working hours lead to balance work and family can not, especially female doctors, the contradiction between this work and family doctors make more fatigue, and even the idea of divorce, causing huge stress.
Another reason is that the workplace environment to work in the hospital in a variety of occupations, if not most times is very bad, especially in China, all levels of overcrowding in hospitals, doctors, even the normal work, but also bear close or more than physical and mental ability to withstand heavy work pressure, on top of this violence has added to the hospital, the hospital information violence for most doctors, hospital although violence did not happen to them, but the frequent occurrence of each the doctor is a long-term mental stress.
Multiple causes of depression among doctors related to the medical profession itself, many doctors know they have symptoms of depression, but not active treatment, in the above mentioned Australian survey, more than half of doctors believe that because of depression and seek treatment for their career is a serious blow to their concerns about the impact of future income and reputation, or that because of depression and seeking help is a disgrace. So they will choose to solve their own, find themselves in depressive symptoms, some people rely on exercise to ease, some people ourselves open antidepressants, most people would keep a secret, by all means do not let other people know that they have the fact that the symptoms of depression.
In other people's eyes, the doctor is engaged in the noble profession of saving lives, few people think doctors are human beings, but also emotions, will face a variety of problems on the family and society, too, and everyone else will get sick, but no one thought on some disease, doctors are more susceptible to disease than others, especially depression. For these reasons, many doctors after suffering from depression lack of proper understanding and treatment, leading to more serious symptoms, suicide tragedy occurred last.
In these appearances, the doctors group become high risk of depression and the medical profession imbalance has a great relationship. The doctor is a very noble and sacred profession, have a high social status, income is not bad, relatively speaking, lead to a lot of people determined to study medicine, the majority of them are not really like this job, but this job like packing aura , wait for them after heavy homework and work day and night, so they see the reality after the aura after the majority of them will be very disappointed.
Enjoy from the medical profession who is not no fun, but very few, most people do work as a breadwinner. Many doctors do not like this job, but can not decide to change jobs, or simply have no other choice. From out of medical school, done in hospital medicine, middle-aged people to stay for another few years, the medical profession long training period, but also very special, rarely leads to switch room. The sanctity of medical doctors also makes burdened with social responsibility, could not bear to change jobs, so they over many years doing difficult or rarely have fun occupation, by occasionally resort to ease, which for their spirit, it is a kinds of severe torture.
Take the clinic, the doctors to see dozens of patients every day, mostly minor ailments, there are some very serious patients. Handle every day a dentist mouth another mouth rotten teeth, more and more depressed. Death is commonplace for doctors, and many times the doctor there is a feeling of powerlessness, which will induce their depressive symptoms. Especially the kind of feeling of helplessness can cause the most severe symptoms of depression.
Depression is not just a problem to be faced by doctors, but also the whole society to care and solve the problem, because the doctor symptoms of depression, then bad luck is not only doctors and patients. For three US children's hospital 123 hospital doctors found that 20% suffer from depression, they have committed medical errors is not suffering from depression, 6.3 times the doctor. Dangerous a male doctor suffering from depression in medical practice for 13 per cent of female doctors is 20%, so the patient has a high chance of suffering from depression met a doctor, met medical mistakes and accidents are not opportunities small. After the doctor suffering from depression, doctors are direct victims, the patient will be indirect victims, no one can stay out.
Resolve depression can not just rely on the doctors themselves in the high incidence of problem doctors, first to rely on hospitals and health departments at all levels of mental health care doctors, reduction of working hours and workload of doctors, create a good working environment for doctors, especially hospital security. Followed by every person and physician contact, whether patients or their families, should try to control their emotions, understanding the medical staff, but can not have hurt health care speech and actions. Hospital for violence, the whole society to form a common hatred of the momentum, the formation of a universal condemnation of the atmosphere. Although doctors can not completely solve the problem of depression, at least be able to make this problem get some relief.
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