Tag Archives: suicide
Operatic Suicides
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 21st January 2022An art form that focuses on the extremes of human emotions will certainly have self annihilation as a regular subject. Suicide appears so frequently in opera that I could devote scores of articles to it. It’s such a common event that it’s even stimulated medical journals to comment on it. See Four centuries of suicide…
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Educational Thought of the Day
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 31st January 2016Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. A Study of History – Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975)
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Suicide in Doctors
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 5th September 2015One of the medical newsletters I receive describes the suicide of a 33 year old surgeon near the completion of his training. The sad story of this death was taken from an article that appeared in Time Magazine – Why The Toxic Treatment of Doctors Needs to Change. The authors of the piece are the…
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