TY - JOUR T1 - Suicide in doctors JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 237 LP - 237 DO - 10.1136/jech.56.3.237 VL - 56 IS - 3 AU - T J P Verberne Y1 - 2002/03/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/56/3/237.1.abstract N2 - Hawton and colleagues1 found that, relative to the general population, NHS female doctors had about twice the expected suicide rate, whereas NHS male doctors had about half the expected suicide rate. They concluded that, “the excess risk of suicide of female doctors in the NHS workforce is an important pattern that should be carefully monitored. This is especially so in the light of increasing numbers of women coming into medicine.” (299). In … ER -