Intended for healthcare professionals

Corrections

Doctor suicide: “All I could see were tasks mounting, appointments being booked, and people constantly knocking on my door”

BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2239 (Published 11 October 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2239

A incorrect statistic in this feature article (BMJ 2024;386:q1879, doi:10.1136/bmj.q1879, published 17 September 2024) that was taken from a cited article (reference 1) has been corrected in both the source article and here: “one doctor dies by suicide every 10 days in the UK” has been changed to “one doctor dies by suicide every three weeks in the UK.” Additionally, a phrase incorrectly stating that female doctors are at higher risk of suicide than male doctors has been removed.