Abstract
Informed as to the epidemiologic aspects of suicide and as to warning signs, physicians could, by appropriate action, prevent self-destruction in many cases.
Not only ought each physician's office be a suicide prevention station, but all physicians ought to act in concert to gather data, to carry out a program of public instruction and to enlist the aid of the press in an effort to reduce the ever-increasing rate of suicide.
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