Life in a theocracy dictatorship like Iran! Another young woman ends up dead!
"The alarming number of young Iranian doctors taking their own lives has put the future of the country's health-care system in doubt.
Overworked, underpaid, and "humiliated" by their seniors, many resident doctors -- medical school graduates in training -- are harboring suicidal thoughts or considering moving abroad.
"Suicide among residents today is more of a crisis," Nima Shahriarpur, an emergency medicine doctor, told the Iranian news website Khabar Online.
And he may have a point: 16 resident doctors committed suicide in the Iranian year ending on March 19. A year earlier, 13 young physicians took their own lives.
The most recent incident happened last week, when Parastu Bakhshi was found dead by her colleagues at her hospital residence. The 34-year-old resident doctor was reportedly under increasing pressure at work. ..."
Credits: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Global Health NOW
Parastu Bakhshi is just one recent case of a young doctor unable to go on.
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