[1] The suicide mortality rate is about the same among male and female doctors,[2] and significantly higher than the general population.
In the United States of America, an estimated 300 to 400 doctors die by suicide each year, a rate of 28 to 40 per 100,000 or more than double that of general population.
[7] A study of medical residents in the United States from 2000 to 2014 found that suicide was one of the leading causes of death in that population.
[8] In 2018, a journalist for Refinery29 reviewed how Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan responds to suicide by its physicians.
The story of Dr. Lorna Breen, an ER doctor at New York Presbyterian-Allen Hospital in Northern Manhattan, helped to gain awareness about this issue of mental health struggles, burnout, and suicide risk amongst doctors working through the crisis.