Doctors who CTB by cutting

[QuincyME]

I read an article about the high suicide rate among doctors. One article looked at one particular group and while the leading cause of death was to OD, right behind it was cutting. I wonder what these people know that the rest of us don't? I realize they have advanced anatomical knowledge, but there are only so many ways and places you can cut yourself. I'm curious if they do it in conjunction with drugs or if they just straight up cut themselves. I really wish this was a more reliable method and more like what you see in the movies.

 

[mangoastronaut]

My partner is a med student, and one time they let slip you can make an agent to easily kill yourself cheaply from the grocery store. They mentioned a potato, but stopped after I asked them for more info. I think they're talking about KN.

 

[heldbyone]

I read an article about the high suicide rate among doctors. One article looked at one particular group and while the leading cause of death was to OD, right behind it was cutting. I wonder what these people know that the rest of us don't? I realize they have advanced anatomical knowledge, but there are only so many ways and places you can cut yourself. I'm curious if they do it in conjunction with drugs or if they just straight up cut themselves. I really wish this was a more reliable method and more like what you see in the movies.

worked in hospitals and most are OD or hanging what a stpd dr wants painful death !!!

 

[Dusk till dawn]

I think they use lidocaine and apply regional nerve blockade before cutting major blood vessels wide open, still a horrible method from my perspective tbh

 

[QuincyME]

I think they use lidocaine and apply regional nerve blockade before cutting major blood vessels wide open, still a horrible method from my perspective tbh

I was just relating what I had read in the article. As a doctor I would think you'd have access to the best meds out there to CTB.

 

[Nightfoot]

Several years ago, someone I went to school with was murdered by his wife. The person who told me about it said, "she was a nurse, so she knew where to cut." Whether that was true or had anything to do with it I don't know, but it was an interesting comment.

 

[ladylazarus4]

I was just relating what I had read in the article. As a doctor I would think you'd have access to the best meds out there to CTB.

even better, a vet… I work for a vet and helped with a horse euth a few weeks ago. I held 120 ml of pentobarbital in my hands. It was right there.

 

[tooBadTooLate]

Considering that they might have easier access to anesthetics, I think that it might be easier for them to get through with it in conjunction with drugs. Cutting yourself hurts like hell, so I'd imagine that they'd inject some local anesthetics first.

 

[Daphne]

even better, a vet… I work for a vet and helped with a horse euth a few weeks ago. I held 120 ml of pentobarbital in my hands. It was right there.

Perfect job. By the time they count the pento, you could already be pushing up daisies theoretically. Also, seeing animals put done humanely has got to be rewarding

 

[ladylazarus4]

Perfect job. By the time they count the pento, you could already be pushing up daisies theoretically. Also, seeing animals put done humanely has got to be rewarding

The problem is, I work at a clinic where we don't actually have the euthanasia drugs- I don't want to get too specific but it's not a hospital. So when the horse had to be euthanized, another vet came to do it and brought the drugs with her.
It was relieving to see that horse put out of the immense pain she was in.
eta but if you meant vet med in general, then yes. For sure. I don't know if anyone other than DVMs actually have access to the drugs tho.

 

[rainatthebusstop]

So when I interned at a hospital, they told me that that they had a safety system in place where every removal of meds that would do you in relatively harmlessly is now strictly monitored.

So yeah it's probably an anaesthic with slashing their arteries. Considering how little someones chances are of actually dying this it's not a reliable method

 

[homeboundcripple]

My partner is a med student, and one time they let slip you can make an agent to easily kill yourself cheaply from the grocery store. They mentioned a potato, but stopped after I asked them for more info. I think they're talking about KN.

rotting potatoes release poisonous gases that apparently killed a family in Russia some years back.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

Suicidal doctors or other intellectual professionals aren't always thinking rationally or with deliberation just because of the type of profession they had.