Physician Depression-Part 3

Part of Series Troubled Doctors: Addiction and Depression in Medicine
Length 05:18
Licensor KUOW
Producer(s) Patricia Murphy
Formats Hard Feature, Special
Topics Health, News
Produced Unspecified
Added to PRX May 1, 2008
 

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Summary:

Examines depression in physicans

Website:

http://www.kuow.org/newspecials/addiction.asp

Additional Credits and Funding:

Edited by Guy Nelson

Tones:

Dark, Real, Sad

Language:

English

Description:

The head of the Washington Physician's Health Program says there's an epidemic of suicide among doctors. In the final part of our series on impaired physicians, we'll examine the reasons why depressed doctors go untreated and why the end result is often an attempt at suicide.

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