Confronting Depression and Suicide in Physicians

Employment Law Center and theUniversity of California, Hastings College of Law, SanFrancisco (Ms Center); George Washington UniversitySchoolofPublicHealthandHealthServices,Washing-ton, DC (Dr Davis); Department of Psychiatry, Univer-sity of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh (Dr De-tre);DepartmentsofMedicine,Epidemiology,andHealthPolicyandManagement,JohnsHopkinsSchoolofMedi-cine, Baltimore, Md (Dr Ford); Department of Educa-tion, Research, and Development, University of Cali-fornia Medical Center, San Diego (Ms Hansbrough);American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and De-partmentofPsychiatry,NewYorkMedicalCollege,NewYork(DrHendin);AmericanCancerSociety,Atlanta,Ga(Dr Laszlo); Office of the US Surgeon General, Wash-ington,DC(DrLitts);DivisionofNeuroscience,Depart-mentofPsychiatry,ColumbiaUniversityMedicalCen-ter,NewYork,NY(DrMann);CommitteeforPhysicians’Health, Medical Society of the State of New York, andDepartmentofPsychopharmacologyatAlbanyCollegeof UnionUniversity,Albany(DrMansky);thePayneWhit-neyClinic,JoanandSanfordI.WeillMedicalCollegeofCornellUniversity,NewYork,NY(DrMichels);Depart-ment of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Minne-sota Medical School, Minneapolis (Dr Miles); Alfred I.duPontHospitalforChildren,Wilmington,Del,andJef-fersonMedicalCollege,Philadelphia,Pa(DrProujansky);WesternPsychiatricInstituteandClinic,UniversityofPitts-burghMedicalCenter,Pittsburgh,Pa(DrReynolds);andNationalSuicidePreventionResourceCenter,Newton,Mass,andDepartmentofPsychiatry,UniversityofChi-cago Medical School, Chicago, Ill (Dr Silverman).