Actually, it's always been the physician to understand why people end their lives voluntarily. Why is so much despair and hopelessness? Where the courage is gone, the tax turn things around and change your life?
At school, in fifth grade: A father shot himself, wife, children, and thus the Klassenkamaradin. Eighth grade: The mother of a friend hung himself. Later in the hospital: A police officer on his Cancer had been cleared up, told his wife to bring the service weapon. She declined. Shortly after the man had jumped from the roof of the hospital.
Later, in the ambulance service: jump from the tower, hanging in the basement and the attic and countless pills and alcohol poisoning, of which we never really knew whether it should go for self-anesthesia or suicide. Some of these poisonings resulted in the deaths, most, how many resulted in lifelong disabilities. Unexplained accidents: Why is the driver to brake test rushed to the tree? The track-Suicide increased strikingly, silk of ICE swept through the town.
The emergency physician noted the death. On the death certificate, he checked "non-natural cause of death", it's always with suicide. Sooner or later, the detective comes to the scene. You must exclude a "foul play". Sometimes family doctor or relatives are available. Most reported depression or previous suicide attempts. Rarely one is surprised. At some point, listen to doctors to ask about the background. After the history, the circumstances, the causes of sadness, despair, hopelessness. The triggers.
will eventually no longer put in the essential question: "Were these suicides have been prevented?" Emergency doctors are cynical, jaded, disinterested.
called to the next assignment.
