American Health Care Workers & Suicide (employment, insurance, states, rates)

[UEHelp]

http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcar...-unprecedented

So what's going on here? Is this a symptom of ACA with fewer healthcare professionals and more patients? It's always been a "high-stress, low tolerance for mistakes" job but clearly, there is an issue going on here that no one wants to talk about.

[middle-aged mom]

Fewer healthcare workers?

Healthcare employment in the US surpassed manufacturing and retail this year to become the largest source of jobs in the US.

The aging of the population and that 75% of us are overweight/ obese ensures that the demand for healthcare workers will not diminish.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...a-jobs/550079/

The snowflake opinion piece in your link cites 400 physician suicides in 2016. There are more than 1 million licensed MDs in the US.

The rate of suicide in the US is at a 28 year high, regardless of profession and does not include suicide by cop. The rate of MD suicide is substantially less than for the general population.

Sounds like you might resent that more people have access to healthcare under the ACA than pre ACA when most states allowed insurers to deny insurance to people with preexisting conditions.

[Brave New World]

Originally Posted by UEHelp

http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcar...-unprecedented

So what's going on here? Is this a symptom of ACA with fewer healthcare professionals and more patients? It's always been a "high-stress, low tolerance for mistakes" job but clearly, there is an issue going on here that no one wants to talk about.

I think certain medical occupations have high suicide rates in other countries, I think nurses generally have a high sucide rates in countries beyonfd the US.

However generally jobs that involve a high degree of social isolation such as agriculture tend to have among the highest suicide rates, although the highest suicide rate in the UK is among male low skilled contruction workers.

Male construction workers at greatest risk of suicide, study finds - Guardian

Nurses more at risk of suicide than any other profession | Daily Mail