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Does "after accidents" refer to "after medical accidents"?

 
 
Reply Fri 15 May, 2015 10:48 pm

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400 physicians to suicide each year (the equivalent of at least one entire medical school).

Sadly, although physicians globally have a lower mortality risk from cancer and heart disease relative to the general population (presumably related to self care and early diagnosis), they have a significantly higher risk of dying from suicide, the end stage of an eminently treatable disease process. Perhaps even more alarming is that, after accidents, suicide is the most common cause of death among medical students.
In all populations, suicide is usually the result of untreated or inadequately treated depression, coupled with knowledge of and access to lethal means.[1] Depression is at least as common in the medical profession as in the general population, affecting an estimated 12% of males and 18% of females. Depression is even more common in medical students and residents, with 15-30% of them screening positive for depressive symptoms. A 2011 survey of 50,000 practicing physicians and medical students in Australia demonstrated a dramatically increased incidence of severe psychological distress and a twofold increased incidence of suicidal ideation in physicians compared with the general population.[36]

MOre:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/806779-overview

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Reply Sat 16 May, 2015 03:14 am
For all college students, medical or otherwise, suicide is the most common cause of death. Accidents (of all kinds) are the second most frequent (i.e. they come second after suicide) in the list of causes of death. This is not really very surprising, since young people tend not to have many major health problems. For a young age group, in which health is usually good, accident is the most frequent cause of death. Studies suggest that mortality rates are significantly lower among students than the same aged general population.
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Reply Sat 16 May, 2015 04:30 am
@oristarA,
No, after accidents refers to all kind of accidents as opposed to deliberate deaths . So the number one killer is accidents followed by suicides .
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Reply Sat 16 May, 2015 04:52 am
@oristarA,
Accidents (of any kind) are the #1 cause of deaths, suicide comes after, ie #2.
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