Blog posts related to the tragic topic of suicide
Jun 19 2014
Vol. 262, June 20, 2014 Medscape, March 8, 2013 includes a provocative article called Physician Suicide by Louise B. Andrew, Md, JD, explaining all the reasons that doctors are killing themselves at a rate of 400 physicians each year (the equivalent of at least one entire medical school class). More horrific is that suicide is …
May 12 2014
Donna Novi Ever wonder why there seems to be more killings and just plain unhappy crazy people “out there” in the world these days. It’s hard not to hear, see or read about people shooting one another or harming one another since there are TV’s every where these days: work cafeterias, laundromats, doctors offices, even …
Nov 21 2013
What’s The Deal with the Rock and Roll Club 27 – Vol. 226, November 21, 2013 I read about the Club 27 in the USA Today of November 13, 2013, written by Korina Lopez. Ms. Lopez reviewed the book 27: A History of the 27 Club by Howard Sounes. She agrees with Sounes’s observation that all six …
Sep 09 2013
Sadly enough there are many practitioners of mental health who themselves are in crisis who could use the assistance of one of their colleagues. In a Washington Post article written on August 3, 2011 it was reported that psychiatrist Margaret F. Jensvold, a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine fatally shot her 13 year …
Feb 23 2013
The Craigslist murderer committed suicide while in jail. Is this something that we should celebrate as a radio commentator recently stated or would it be more humane to think about this situation from a different point of view?