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A patient’s suicide can have a detrimental impact on the wellbeing of healthcare staff and future patient care, says Rachel Gibbons
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> Rene Leriche (Quoted in Do No Harm by Henry Marsh)
I was delighted to get my first consultant psychiatrist job in 2009 in an inpatient unit in inner London. In my second week, I had my first patient die by suicide. In my third week, another patient I’d treated died by suicide. In my third month, we had a very distressing and violent death by suicide of a patient on the ward. This latter death was initially treated by the police as a murder. This was a shock to me at the time, but I know now that this is not uncommon.
After my first months as a consultant psychiatrist I was permeated by the experience of suicide. I could not understand how three patients I’d treated could have died like this and felt that I must have somehow caused or at
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