Physician Suicide: A Scoping Literature Review to Highlight Opportunities for Prevention

Tiffany I. Leung; Rebecca Snyder; Sima S. Pendharkar; Chwen-Yuen Angie Chen

doi:10.2478/gp-2020-0014

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