Citation

Wang Y, Liu L, Xu H. Medicine (Baltimore) 2017; 96(32): e7790.

Affiliation

aHospital Development Center of Liaoning Province bDepartment of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/MD.0000000000007790

PMID

28796079

Abstract

To our surprise, there were 2 Chinese doctors who committed suicide in the last 2 months. What are the reasons for more and more Chinese doctors to commit suicide?We present 18 cases of China's physicians who committed suicide.We summarized the main reasons for the suicide of Chinese doctors from 2004 to 2017, and the main causes included clinical working stress, Job title promotion requirements stress, tension between the doctors and patients, and shying away from necessary treatment of their illness.It is a cruel fact that more and more physicians died of suicide in China. We hope that suicide among Chinese doctors could be recognized so that it could be concerned with the understanding of human societies.

Language: en