Suicide by health professionals: a retrospective mortality study in Australia, 2001–2012

Goldney, Robert

doi:10.5694/mja16.01378

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I thank Adler and Adler for their comment on my editorial on suicide by health care professionals.1 Their proposal of “redressing sexual inequalities in medicine and eliminating sexual harassment” appears to be encompassed in my statement about “ensuring good workplace relationships and equal opportunity [and] eliminating bullying”,1 which they quote in their letter.

University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA

Correspondence: rdghcg@icloud.com

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1. Goldney RD. Suicide by health care professionals. Med J Aust 2016; 205: 257-258. <MJA full text>
2. Gutek BA, Done RS. Sexual harassment. In: Unger RK, editor. Handbook of psychology of women and gender. New York: Wiley, 2001: 367-387.
3. Frank E, Brogan D, Schiffman M. Prevalence and correlates of harassment among US women physicians. Arch Intern Med 1998; 158: 352-358.

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