Psychiatric illness in female physicians: Are high rates of depression an occupational hazard?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 1997, Pages

  North, Carol S ^a   Ryall, Jo Ellyn M ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 12644301186     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1997.05.249     Document Type: Review

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