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Recognition of Suicidal Risk: The Physician's Responsibility

Authors: GEORGE E. MURPHY, MD

Abstract

It is known now that talk of suicide is not idle talk, as has been accepted too often in the past. A high proportion of suicides have consulted a doctor during the psychiatric illness, often with quite overt signs and symptoms actually “begging” for a diagnosis! The depressed person, the chronic alcoholic who has had a personal loss, are suicidal risks. Every physician who acts as a family doctor or personal physician should plant items from this paper firmly in mind.

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