These estimates may at any rate indicate that on average the United States loses between one small and one large medical school class to suicide each year. puts the lower statistic at around 119 annually.
A 2019 study found that more than 300 doctors die by suicide each year across the nation. Exact numbers are not known. Although it is impossible to estimate with any precision because of inaccurate cause of death reporting and coding, an estimate often used is approximately 300–400 physicians/year, or perhaps loss of one doctor a day to suicide in the United States.
It has been known for almost 150 years that physicians have an increased propensity to die by suicide compared with the general population.
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