One MD a day ends their own life — the highest suicide rate of any profession.
In 2014, Dr. Hawkins Mecham was putting in 100 hours a week. Everything was coming apart, including his marriage. “And then I just snapped,” the 33-year-old says.
Mecham slit his wrists in a motel room, losing so much blood he passed out. When he woke up he wrapped bandages on his wrists and drove to an ER.
Nearly two-thirds of MDs are pessimistic about the future of the medical profession.
Forty-six percent plan to change career paths. Seventeen percent are retiring. And twelve percent want to find a job where they don't have to deal with patients.
Finally, over half say they don't want medicine as a career for their kids.
