Doctors' Suicide Rate Highest of Any Profession

From the article:

> The results also showed that although female doctors attempt suicide far less often than women in the general population, their completion rate exceeds that of the general population by 2.5 to 4 times. It also equals the completion rate of male doctors.

This squares with what I have seen elsewhere. Doctors don't have the highest rate of suicide attempts, what they have is the highest rate of suicide successes.

Any time you see a news report about doctors having a high suicide rate it is natural to think that doctors are more likely to be suicidal. But this is wrong. Instead, doctors who are suicidal are really good at killing themselves.

When you're a doctor mortality is always a topic at hand. When you're a normal person mortality is almost always a topic deferred for another day. To be or not to be? Not today dear I have a headache.

Attempted or successful?