The deadly silence of physician depression and suicide
“It is high time for us to recognize that the physicians who spend so much of their lives caring for us are often suffering in silence, and effective interventions would be good medicine for all of us.”
– Joan M. Anzia, MD
On February 4, 2007, I attempted to take my own life.
It was Super Bowl Sunday, and the Colts were playing the Bears. My wife Charlene and I were home, and …