Over a quarter of medical students are depressed or suicidal

‘It’s very difficult to get through medical school – which involves brutal, long hours of studying and doing residency work – which is why there is not an over-abundance of doctors walking around. It’s so tough, in fact, that a new study has uncovered an alarming statistic: Around a quarter of students in med school are depressed.
In addition, as reported by CNN, about one in 10 report being suicidal at some point during their education, according to a recent analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
In fact, researchers found, depression is really just “an open secret” within the profession, according to Dr. Douglas Mata, co-principle author, and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. Co-principle author Dr. Srijan Sen noted that the calculations cited in the study are not merely numbers.’
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