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Approaching the suicidal patient
The suicide of a patient can be devastating to the family and to the family physician. The patient's death may shake the physician's confidence, undermine any willingness to work with patients with a mental illness, and provoke professional and legal review. In an attempt to help the family physician prevent suicide, this article reviews known risk factors and offers a strategy for assessing these factors in individual patients. The authors outline interventions that fit the existing level of risk and provide suggestions for the physician in the event of a completed suicide.
Response to Schirmer and Le
Response to Schirmer and Le's article "The Vietnam Family Medicine Development Project: A cross-cultural collaboration", Families, Systems, & Health. Vol 20(3), Fal 2002, p. 303-310. Response focuses on issues regarding cross cultural collaborations on the development of family medicine training programs in Vietnam.