The author reviewed the case records of 100 physician inpatients in a
private psychiatric hospital. He found that these physicians were more
likely to have diagnoses of affective disorder and drug abuse than the
general psychiatric hospital population, that their peak susceptibility
occurred in their late 40s, that general practitioners and psychiatrists
were overrepresented, and that female physicians were almost four times
more vulnerable to suicide than male physicians. He describes some critical
aspects of engaging the disabled physician in psychiatric
hospitalization.Abstract Teaser