TTENTION TO DEPRESSION AND suicide in physicians is long overdue. As early as 1858, physicians in England observed that a higher suicide rate exists among physicians than the general population. 1 Since the 1960s, research confirmed physicians' higher suicide rate and identified depression as a major risk factor. 2,3 Most strikingly, suicide is a disproportionately high cause of mortality in physicians, 4 with all published studies 5,6 indicating a particularly high suicide rate in female physicians.Inattention to depression and suicide in physicians sharply contrasts with heightened attention to physicians' smoking-related mortality. Since the 1960s, declines of 40% to 60% have oc-Author Affiliations: Employment Law Center and the

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