No sauce except for her obituary but this doctor was 55 years old. Makes me wonder how many of these doctors will follow suit?! What are they seeing with cancers and their treatments all of a sudden? Just makes me wonder. I’m sure there is a high rate of depression in this field, but I can’t help but think she’s not the first and will not be the last.
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Doctors in general have the highest suicide rate, and usually psychiatry is the worst. Their patients are intractable and uncurable. Oncology similarly, like being a hospice worker, always seeing a precarious slippery slope until it starts to feel like the whole world has a life expectancy of 3.5 years with constant pain and expense. "Success" takes on another meaning.