Why Doctors Have a High Rate of Suicide

Doctors aren't supposed to need help and can suffer consequences for seeking it out

For many doctors, the day-in-day-out stress leads to crippling depression. Shutterstock

Alarms go off so frequently in emergency rooms, doctors barely notice. But when a colleague is wheeled in on a gurney, clinging to life, that alarm becomes a deafening wake-up call.

For Dr. Kip Wenger, that colleague was a friend, a 33-year-old female physician.