A Healthcare Organization’s Actions and Postvention Steps for Physician Death by Suicide

Tragically, anywhere from 300 to 400 physicians die by suicide each year. Given this sad reality, there’s a strong need for healthcare organizations to have a planful response in the wake of a tragedy. Specifically, a strategy in place to guide how an organization responds, recovers and re-stablishs their work culture so awareness increases and the risk of suicide decreases with the goal of zero.

Simon Mittal, MD, MMM and VITAL WorkLife Peer Coach gives us urgent and encouraging words on how colleagues and organizations can respond to and recover from the various forms suicidality can take. 

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