Female Doctors 76% More Likely to Commit Suicide Than Non-Doctor Females, Study Finds

Maybe being a doctor is too stressful for women?

The Guardian:

Suicide risk is significantly higher for female doctors compared with the general population, according to an analysis of evidence from 20 countries.

The researchers said that while suicide rates among doctors have declined over time, and risk varied across different countries and regions, the results highlighted a need for continued research and prevention efforts.

Their findings were published in the BMJ journal.

According to previous estimates, one doctor dies by suicide every day in the US, and about one every 10 days in the UK, but evidence on suicide rates for physicians is inconsistent across countries.

To address this, researchers led by the University of Vienna in Austria analysed the results of observational studies published between 1960 and 2024 that compared suicides rates among doctors with the general population.

A total of 39 studies from 20 countries were included. The researchers found no overall increase in suicide risk for male doctors compared with the general population. For female doctors, however, suicide risk was significantly higher (76%) than the general population, the BMJ reported.

While there was no overall increase found among male physicians when compared with the general public, a separate analysis of the data revealed male doctors did have a higher risk of suicide compared with other professional groups with “similar socioeconomic status”.

So which is it? These are not particularly complicated numbers here. A very low portion of people dies by suicide. There shouldn’t even need to be a university study, it’s just a basic statistical analysis that one person could do on a spreadsheet. How can two studies come up with different answers to that question?

I haven’t looked at the numbers myself, but I guess what they’re saying there is that if you control for “socioeconomic status,” doctors do have a higher rate of suicide, but if you include all men (which includes soldiers and former soldiers, who have the highest rate of suicide and a lower socioeconomic status), doctors do not stand out.

One would assume it would be more of an increase for women than men, given that men are more capable of dealing with stress.

But who cares? Men have four times the suicide rate of women overall, so if women doctors are 76% more likely to commit suicide than non-doctors, that still means they’re more than two times less likely to do it than the average man.

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In the experience of literally everyone, women are not great at dealing with stress. Girls should really stick to girly things. Women are probably capable of being physicians in certain fields of medicine, because the job is mostly about memory and multitasking, which are two of the things women are actually good at. But that doesn’t mean they should be doctors. This is basically transsexualism.

Frankly, women should not be involved in public life at all. There is no reason for this and there is no benefit to it. The idea was to increase the workforce, but it turns out that working women don’t have kids, so over time, you actually decrease the workforce.

It was a weird experiment, we tried it, it failed, let’s roll it back. Roll it back.