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The scary reason 1 million Americans can never see their doctors again

By Quartz  
   January 26, 2016

Each year more than one million Americans lose their doctors to suicide, and nobody ever tells patients the truth—the real reason they can't see their doctors ever again. Nobody talks about our doctors jumping from hospital rooftops, overdosing in call rooms, hanging themselves in hospital chapels. It's medicine's dirty secret—and it's covered up by our hospitals, clinics, and medical schools. No medical school wants to be known as the "Suicide School." No hospital wants to be #1 for interns jumping from rooftops. No student wants to become a doctor in order to kill themselves.

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