Suicide and the Dental/Gynae Curse

Suicide I was led to belief is a dentists or gynecologist problem. Religion teaches us not kill and that’s one of the Ten Commandments for the religiously challenged masses. We don’t think that gynecologists are more stressed or less religious than the rest of us doctors. Uncontrolled studies have suggested that having to work in confined same space day after day with little interaction with the person above may have something to do with it.

I lost count after the twelfth doctor died through suicide in less than five year period. Doctors of all should have coping skills. We supposed to teach others how to cope. I won’t include those dying of TB or HIV, as for me they are essentially the same. Does a shrink need a shrink to offload? Maybe it’s time such a shrink considered a position as a game park ranger or something. I have discovered to the dismay of most that think counselors are considerate that those that perform best are the bouncers rather than the adsorbent group. The short term memory deficient group shines. They take very little of their client’s problems home with them.

The causes or the suicide notes are varied and of no relevance to this discourse. The end point is that a human will have failed for the last time. No second episodes to teach others from your journey. Cowardice to the extent that you don’t even let those you have failed kick your butt to release. Success and failure are only different because of what you do post the event.

Whether it’s due to negligence on the part of the doctor towards a patient or the inner will failure is probably best explained by statistics. Most of suicide patients on presentation will eventually successfully commit suicide. Could we cut our losses by identifying the gene, give them access to lots of potentially fatal if overdosed drugs or should we let them take somebody (child or spouse) emotion with them in the long term.

My experience moving just about 600km away has been that country side has a totally different profile of psychiatric outpatient. They tend to have proportionally more schizophrenics than the norm and practically no depression, obsessive compulsive or anxiety disorders. Could the wild and open spaces of natural beauty have that much effect on depression? How then do we explain the incidence of schizophrenia, a scent from a pine forest? I hope it totally erases every suicide possibility from my death certificate. I love the open air effect.

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