Preventing Clinician Suicide: A Call to Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Academic Medicine
This call to action highlights the fight to prevent clinician suicide. The article discusses the lived experience movement and the prevalence of stigma that continues to surround mental illnesses in medicine. The authors also highlight the impact of the pandemic and the evidence-based actions that stakeholder groups can take to prevent clinician suicide.
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