How many doctors committed suicide last year?

One of my friends tried to discourage me from becoming a doctor by telling me that doctors have some of the highest suicide rates. I responded by telling them that the numbers are misleading. Because there are different types of physicians which require different kinds of work, stress, and time, you would have to separate the suicide rates of them all to get an accurate look at which of them actually has the highest suicide rate and then individually rank them next to the different... Read more
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