One in Four Resident Physicians Suffer from Depression

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A new study in JAMA reveals that, on average, 25% of beginning physicians meet the diagnostic criteria for major depression. In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Thomas Schwenk, added: Everybody asks me, because of some of my prior studies, should we have more intense work in diagnosing depression in students? Of course, the answer is ‘yes,’ but how do you go about that without further stigmatizing them, further labeling them, further singling them out to even greater stigma? It’s not just an issue of, ‘Let’s make better diagnoses and let’s provide better treatment’; it’s more complicated than that.”

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