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Suicide and the Hospital Service

A Study of Hospital Records of Patients who Subsequently Committed Suicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kingsley Jones
Kingsley Jones*
Affiliation:
St. Andrew's Hospital, Thorpe St. Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, NOR 58A
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Extract

Suicide is obviously in part a medical problem and various writers have suggested that action on the part of doctors might reduce its incidence. In particular, attention has been directed towards recognizing and promptly treating depressive illness and in the management of such illness suicide is regarded as a significant risk.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 476 , July 1965 , pp. 625 - 630
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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