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title: "Healing the Healer: Providing a Path Towards Physician Suicide Prevention"
description: This is an ongoing series of articles from VITAL WorkLife addressing physician well being solutions from multiple perspectives, from individual self-care to leadership support for physician well being.
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# Healing the Healer: Providing a Path Towards Physician Suicide Prevention

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There’s a painful fact about medicine today, one practitioners and healthcare organizations are often hesitant to talk about: physicians choose to end their lives at a rate around **twice the rest of the general population.**

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### Key Points:

- A look at factors pushing physicians from burnout to suicide. 
- What healthcare organizations can do to help their physicians in need.
- The role of colleagues who witness fellow physicians struggling with burnout.

### Download ***"Healing the Healer: Providing a Path to Physician Suicide Prevention" ***to learn more about the drivers of physician suicide and actions for prevention.

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