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Addicted Doctors
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Bit of a strange one I know. But are there any statistics that show the percentage of doctors/GPs/surgeons and other medics that have addiction problems? Had a girlfriend once who cleaned for a brain surgeon (of all people), cash in hand. She said that he smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish. His wife put it down to the stress of his job. And I once knew a GP who attended Alcoholics Annonymous who had been in rehab...a functional alcoholic who treated patients while half cut most of the time but still functional when at work.(and apparently quiet a good doctor...many patients requested him for appointments)
Also read once about how many medics turned to substance abuse because of the stress off working in enviroments that dealt with death and illness on a daily basis and had easy access to drugs.
Thanks.
Also read once about how many medics turned to substance abuse because of the stress off working in enviroments that dealt with death and illness on a daily basis and had easy access to drugs.
Thanks.
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Above is a BBC News article from 2005 on addictions among medical staff. I don't imagine things will be very different today.
I actually went to Google hoping to find a copy of a Lancet article from about ten years ago, but couldn't find it. I recall thinking when I read it back then that - on the statistics provided - it was likely that at least two of the doctors at the surgery I used were addicts of one sort or another!
Above is a BBC News article from 2005 on addictions among medical staff. I don't imagine things will be very different today.
I actually went to Google hoping to find a copy of a Lancet article from about ten years ago, but couldn't find it. I recall thinking when I read it back then that - on the statistics provided - it was likely that at least two of the doctors at the surgery I used were addicts of one sort or another!