Recently a Radio- diagnosis resident allegedly committed suicide at the prestigious PGI’s Old Doctors’ Hostel. This is not new news as far as medical community is concerned. Lot of studies has highlighted this fact, but lot more has to be done to device robust coping mechanisms. A study by Abhinav Goyal et al (Journal of Mental Health and Human Behavior, 2012) on 265 undergraduate students of a medical college in Delhi reported an association as high as 53.6 percent with suicidal ideation. Suicidal ideation was highest in first professional year (64.4%) and lowest in third professional year (40.4%).
About 4.9 percent students seriously contemplated suicide and 2.6 percent attempted suicide at least once in their life. Doctors have the highest rate of suicide among all the professions. In the US every year, between 300 and 400 physicians take their own lives. And, in sharp contrast to…
