Overview
Identifies and reviews causes and signs of depression in oncology professionals
Describes strategies that individuals can use to seek help and manage symptoms of depression
Provides information and guidance on supporting mental health among oncologist colleagues
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a reference and contextual basis for depression, burnout and suicide among oncology and other medical professionals. Oncology as a medical subspecialty is at a unique apex of this crisis. While the same pressures in medicine certainly apply to oncologists, oncology is particularly stressful as a changing field with diverse patient and societal expectations for outcomes. In addition to experiencing the stress of caring for patients that could succumb to their cancer diagnoses, these professionals are regularly confronted with an onslaught of new medical information and a landscape that is changing at a breakneck pace. These are just a few factors involved in the increasing rates of burnout among oncologists as well as other medcial professionals. By addressing a gap in identifying mental health problems among health care professionals, this book sheds light on mental health problems and suicide among physicians. Importantly, this book is a call to action of the professional and administrative organizations to work on improving mental health of physicians. Anxiety and depression affect not only the individual doctor but also patient care. Given the increasing attention to these issues along with limited yet applicable data regarding how to address these issues, the text aims to bring the latest data face to face with consensus opinion and can be used to ultimately enhance oncologic and psychiatric practices.
Written by experts in the field, Depression, Burnout and Suicide in Physicians: Insights from Oncology and Other Medical Professions aims to significantly increase awareness and contribute to understanding the necessity of preventive measures on individual, family, and care givers levels.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Luigi Grassi, MD, MPhil
Institute of Psychiatry,
Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation,
University of Ferrara
Ferrara, Italy
Daniel McFarland, D.O.
Department of Medicine
Northwell Health Cancer Institute
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY
Michelle B. Riba, MD, MS
Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan, Rogel Cancer Center
Ann Arbor, MI
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Depression, Burnout and Suicide in Physicians
Book Subtitle: Insights from Oncology and Other Medical Professions
Editors: Luigi Grassi, Daniel McFarland, Michelle B. Riba
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84785-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84784-5Published: 01 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84787-6Published: 02 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84785-2Published: 30 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 179
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Oncology, Internal Medicine