No life remains untouched by suicide. In the United States, there are more than 31,000 suicides each year, with a national rate of 11 deaths per 100,000 people. This is roughly double the death rate by homicide and by alcohol-induced deaths. In comparison with patterns related to physical illnesses, it is more than twice the rate of deaths each year by AIDS and brain cancer, the same death rate as ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer, and half the death rate by breast cancer, pneumonia, and Alzheimers disease (1). The personal and intergenerational impact of suicide is immense, and the lost years of contribution by those who take their lives represent a tremendous, perhaps immeasurable loss to our society. As specialists in mental illnesses which are most highly associated with death by suicide, psychiatrists are called upon to provide distinct expertise and effective clinical services in relation to this highly significant public health issue. A corollary, then, is that academic psychiatrists must help prepare psychiatrists-in-training for the responsibility of caring for people at risk for suicide and learning how best to respond as a professional to the tragedy that suicide always is. In this issue, Fang et al. (2)
Encountering Patient Suicide: Emotional Responses, Ethics, and Implications for Training Programs
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No life remains untouched by suicide. In the United States, there are more than 31,000 suicides each year, with a national rate of 11 deaths per 100,000 people. This is roughly double the death rate by homicide and by alcohol-induced deaths. In comparison with patterns related to physical illnesses, it is more than twice the rate of deaths each year by AIDS and brain cancer, the same death rate as ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer, and half the death rate by breast cancer, pneumonia, and Alzheimers disease (1). The personal and intergenerational impact of suicide is immense, and the lost years of contribution by those who take their lives represent a tremendous, perhaps immeasurable loss to our society. As specialists in mental illnesses which are most highly associated with death by suicide, psychiatrists are called upon to provide distinct expertise and effective clinical services in relation to this highly significant public health issue. A corollary, then, is that academic psychiatrists must help prepare psychiatrists-in-training for the responsibility of caring for people at risk for suicide and learning how best to respond as a professional to the tragedy that suicide always is. In this issue, Fang et al. (2)
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Encountering Patient Suicide: Emotional Responses, Ethics, and Implications for Training Programs
Coverdale, John H.; Roberts, Laura Weiss; Louie, Alan K.
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, Volume 31 (5): 329
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Oct 1, 2007
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