-- Medical students have rates of depression 15 to 30 percent higher than the general population.
-- Women physicians have a higher rate of major depression than age-matched women with doctorate degrees.
-- Physicans use of mental health services also appears low. But there is virtually no information on pat-terns of seeking help.
-- More is known about medical students. They have low rates of seeking help with only 22 percent of those who screened positive for depression using mental health services.
-- Practicing physicians with psychiatric disorders often encounter overt or covert discrimination in medical licensing, hospital privileges, health insurance, and/or malpractice insurance.
Sources: The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the Consensus Statement from the American Medical Association, 2003.
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