Doctor suicide: carers need to feel cared for to keep on caring

Abstract

Doctors are tasked with responding to the needs of patients with knowledge, skill, and care. Knowledge and skill can both be delivered with little depletion and are usually enhanced by practice. Caring is different. It is a limited, depletable resource that, without renewal, can lead to the extreme distress described by Waters.1 Carers need to feel cared for to …