June 17, 2003 — Editor's Note: A consensus statement in the June 18 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, a special theme issue on depression, mandates treatment of depression and ...

Fourteen percent of physicians reported their depression caused them to make errors in patient care they would not normally make, and five percent said these errors could harm patients, according to ...

Due to the prevalence of depression among medical trainees of all levels, mental health and wellness education should begin as early as medical school orientation, according to a letter to the editor ...

There is growing concern about the well-being of physicians and the consequences of poor well-being for physicians themselves, their patients, and the broader health care system. Diminished well-being ...

In the span of Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld's career as an anesthesiologist, he's lost three colleagues to suicide, and he's only in his 40s. Those losses weigh heavily on Ehrenfeld, who also serves as the ...

NEW YORK – Physicians, particularly female physicians, have the highest suicide rate of any profession in the country. Every year, between 300 and 400 doctors take their own lives. In May 2008, a PBS ...

(HealthDay News) — More than 1 in 4 doctors-in-training may be depressed, which could put their patients at risk, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a ...

Burnout continues to be a significant problem for internal medicine doctors, according to a new study. The research found 10% of internal medicine physicians in the United States reported having the ...

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, or ACLM, released a new expert consensus statement on the role of lifestyle ...