Suicide among medical students and doctors has been a largely unacknowledged phenomenon for decades, obscured by secrecy and shame. Now, it’s beginning to emerge from the shadows. More than 62,000 people, many of them medical professionals and their families, signed a petition this year calling on medical associations to track physician suicides, provide confidential counseling, and require doctor training programs to address a "culture of abuse" too often characterized by bullying, harassment, and humiliation.

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