KevinMD June 6, 2024
At the beginning of a career – sometimes when viewed through rose-colored glasses not yet spoiled by reality – you hope to be able to lose loss to stay away. Somehow you feel like if you just try hard enough – practice psychiatry in the best way possible you can somehow prevent death by suicide. This is obviously magical thinking, and you begin to realize that there will be a loss. You will scour your practices and your documentation to ascertain if you could have done something differently that perhaps the outcome would have been different. We are not able to prevent what we cannot predict; we cannot change outcomes that were not ours to change. These lessons come for...