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This article focuses on doctors and suicide. It provides real examples to illustrate why doctors die by their own hand. These reasons are replicated in the general population, but also include a host of additional risk factors related to being a doctor. In each case, information about the doctor is in the public domain or, as in one case, consent from the next of kin has been obtained for a detail not in the public domain. The author is a doctors' doctor, heading up a confidential health service for doctors with mental illness or addiction, the National Health Service Practitioner Health Programme. Mortality data from the programme (January 2008–January 2017) will also be included. For the sake of confidentiality, data is collated and details regarding age and gender have been approximated.

A nurse's death raises the alarm about the profession's mental health crisis

On the morning of January 18, Joshua Paredes came home to an empty apartment. His roommate and good friend Michael Odell wasn’t there, but there was a giant bag of Skittles, Odell’s favorite snack, on the dog bed.

Paredes, who has two dogs, texted his friend. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, how many Skittles were in here? Just so I know what’s going on with the dogs.'”

They were both working as nurses – Paredes at the University of California, San Francisco hospital and Odell at Stanford Health Care – and initially, Paredes didn’t think much of his friend’s absence, since he typically came home a little later.

When he didn’t hear back, and Odell didn’t answer his call either, Paredes looked for his friend’s location on his phone – they shared locations with each other. It showed him on a highway that he never took to come home.

“So I kind of realized something was weird,” says Paredes.

He then called his friend’s workplace and learned that Odell had left work around 4:30 a.m. to get something from his car. But he never came back.

What diseases are subject to Federal isolation and quarantine law?

What diseases are subject to Federal isolation and quarantine law?

By Executive Order of the President, federal isolation and quarantine are authorized for these communicable diseases:

  • Cholera
  • Diphtheria
  • Infectious tuberculosis
  • Plague
  • Smallpox
  • Yellow fever
  • Viral hemorrhagic fevers
  • Severe acute respiratory syndromes
  • Flu that can cause a pandemic
  • Measles

National Mental Health Resources (United States)

National Mental Health Resources (United States)
 

Index: Addiction / Substance Abuse | Bereavement |  Bullying/Cyberbullying | Coronavirus/Covid-19 | Cancer | Disability/Special Needs |  Domestic Violence | Eating Disorders | Gambling | LGBTQ Resources | Parenthood | Self Harm | Sexual Assault | Suicide Prevention |

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General Resources

  • National Youth Homelessness & Runaway Safeline  1-800-RUNAWAY (786-2929)
  • Love is Respect Hotline – teen dating violence/abuse      

 1-866-331-9474 or Text “loveis” to 22522

https://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/glaxosmithkline_bridges_to_acc.html 

  • AIDS Crisis Line – 1-800-221-7044
  • Online Support Forum

#reddit-heretohelp

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=reddit-heretohelp

  • http://www.mentalhelp.net
  • ttp://bbrfoundation.org/

CoronaVirus/Covid-19

Addiction / Substance Abuse

www.al-anon.alateen.org – (888) 425-2666  

  • Cocaine Anonymous World Service Office

www.ca.org – (800) 347-8998

  • Learn to Cope

www.learn2cope.org – (508) 738-5148

 

  • http://www.addict-help.com/
  • http://www.thegooddrugsguide.com/
  • http://www.addictioncareoptions.com/

Bereavement

Bullying / Cyberbullying

Cancer

Disability / Special Needs

  • Special Needs Alliance

http://www.specialneedsalliance.org/home

Domestic Violence

  • 1- 800-799-7233
  • Family Violence Helpline
  • 1-800-996-6228
  • Love is Not Abuse
  • Wave Europe
  • Hot Peach Pages
  • /r/DomesticViolence

Eating Disorders

  • National Crisis Line – Anorexia and Bulimia

1-800-233-4357

http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/get-help-today/

http://www.something-fishy.org/ 

Gambling

  • Gamblers Anonymous: 800-266-1908
  • Council on Compulsive Gambling: 800-426-1234           

LGBTQ Resources

  • Point Foundation

Parenthood & Youth (All ages / Infant / Teen / Youth / Etc).

  • Planned Parenthood

www.plannedparenthood.org 

  • Planned Parenthood Hotline

1-800-230-PLAN (7526)

Self Harm

Self Harm Hotline – 1-800-DONT CUT (1-800-366-8288)

  • http://www.selfinjury.com/
  • http://www.recoveryourlife.com/
  • http://www.siriusproject.org/relapse.htm
  • To Write Love on her Arms
  • http://www.twloha.com/index.php
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/stopselfharm

Sexual Assault

  • Dating Violence – Youth Hotline: 617-773-4878 (HURT)
  • Rape Crisis Hotline: 617-492-7273
  • 1in6

http://1in6.org/

  • Male Survivor

http://www.malesurvivor.org/default.html

http://www.aftersilence.org/forum/

http://pandys.org/index.html

http://www.rainn.org/

http://www.reddit.com/r/RapeCounseling

Suicide Prevention

https://www.samhsa.gov/homelessness-programs-resources/hpr-resources/suicide-prevention-among-hispanics

WWW.SPIORG.ORG

  • Suicidal? Read this first

http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/

http://www.suicidology.org/web/guest/thinking-about-suicide

http://www.suicideforum.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch

http://www.survivorsofsuicide.com/understanding.shtml

http://www.survivorsofsuicide.com/

  • Feeling Blue

http://www.feelingblue.org/

http://www.save.org/

  • Unsuicide

http://unsuicide.wikispaces.com/Online+Suicide+Help

 

References

Citations, thanks yous, places I found this info: Massachusetts Mental Health Resources, Boonton Public Schools, School District of Onalaska, Amanda Winters (Austin & National), Medfield Public Schools, Healthinfo, Heretohelp,