Why Do Doctors Commit Suicide?

Doctors are dropping like flies these days. Indeed, at least one doctor commits suicide every single day in America! And these are more likely the better doctors - those who have become depressed and disillusioned by the changes in medicine that have turned them into hamsters on a treadmill-to-nowhere but burnout! Today's guest, Michael F Myers, M.D., a 'doctor's doctor', has devoted himself to preventing this downward spiral in his own patients and in preventing physician suicide in general. His latest book is Why Physicians Die By Suicide: Lessons Learned From Their Families and Others Who Cared. Hear the most common reasons why doctors kills themselves and the most common emotions felt by those they leave behind.