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Jul 2023
31m 12s

The Sunday Read: ‘The Moral Crisis of Am...

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Some years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide. Such deaths were distressingly common, she discovered. The suicide rate among doctors appeared to be even higher than the rate among active military members, a notion that startled Dean, who was then working as an administrator at a U.S. Army medical resear ... Show More
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