One person dies of suicide every eleven minutes in our country. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans between 10 and 34 years of age. The fight against suicide is in many ways, the rallying cry of the next generation.
While the broad consensus to fight suicide across society has been extolled from almost all corners, suicide by physician is less often understood to be the tragedy that it is. Indeed, the scourge of suicide by physician is infecting American healthcare and culture and reversing the age-old understanding of the physician as a healer. Nihilistic but powerful activists, tacitly in league with monied insurance interests, promote suicide by physician as an antidote to the uncertainty that can come from disability, increasing age, and other forms of vulnerability.
Matt Vallière, Executive Director of the Patients Rights Action Fund, joins Tom Shakely and Noah Brandt to talk about what patients truly deserve and how to make better choices in uncertain times.
“We Urgently Need Federal Triage Protocols That Ethically and Legally Ensure Equal Access to Care”
