The National Awareness Day has offered light on physical burnout and suicide. 

In April 2020

Breen, an emergency department physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital committed suicide and succumbed.

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The onslaught of patients with COVID was the cause for the suicide

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Both the topics, suicide and burnouts have been posing a huge threat especially after the pandemic period.

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1509 US physicians from June 24 to July 3 gave responses to the The Physicians Foundation for an online survey.

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The questions inclided the effectiveness of interventions to prevent suicide , emotional wellbeing and improving mental health.

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The results showed that the percentage of physicians experiencing burnout before pandemic was 40%, while now it is 60%.

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Similarly, 7% physicians had thoughts about self harm before the pandemic, while now it is 11%.

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36% physicians said that their workplace prioritised physical well-being.

Feist says "Sadly, we have heard from a number of families who lost physicians to suicide, and their loved ones expressed nearly identical concerns to Lorna"