What all physicians need to know about suicide prevention

“If you have a room of one hundred people, one hundred people in that room have been affected by suicide.”

So notes Dr. Juveria Zaheer, CAMH psychiatrist and clinician scientist with the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, and Dr. David Gratzer’s guest on this episode of Quick Takes.

In this 10th episode of Quick Takes, Dr. Gratzer and Dr. Zaheer discuss the weighty topic of suicide. Often a difficult topic for health care providers to deal with, they keep it accessible by focusing on practical issues such as how to approach risk assessment and dealing with a suicidal patient..

What you will learn:

• there’s a complicated relationship between COVID-19 and suicide
• what Dr. Zaheer’s research on suicide has uncovered
• what some of the warning signs for suicide are
• ways to co-create a safety plan with your patient.

The podcast ends with an important reminder that the more we talk about suicide, the more we can all help prevent it.

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