Resource Tag: ONCOLOGISTS

Background: A substantial number of people with cancer endorse suicidality when compared with the general population. Thus, oncology healthcare workers may experience the death of a patient to suicide over their careers. Aims: To explore the impact of patients’ mental health distress and suicidality on oncology personnel with a secondary aim of exploring how personnel cope with these […]

Objective To identify oncologists’, nurses’, and social workers’ strategies and barriers in identifying suicide risk in cancer patients. Methods Sixty-one oncology healthcare professionals (HCPs) at 2 cancer centers were interviewed. We used the grounded theory method (GT) of data collection and analysis. Analysis involved line-by-line coding, and was inductive, with codes and categories emerging from […]

The best practice of oncology relies heavily on a mentally and physically healthy oncology clinician workforce. Historically, the mental health of physicians and clinicians has largely been ignored, perhaps in the spirit of a collective collusion to maintain the illusion of Oslerian equanimity. With exceedingly high and unacceptable rates of burnout and suicide in the […]