along discreetly by a colleague, without any initial or followup conversation. It also looks like the doctors trusted AD's only as much as the non-doctors did ... but they trusted anti-psychotics a great deal more than the average civilian. Did they use these drugs as direct treatment for depression, or simply as industrial-strength sleeping pills? Either way, it looks like their trust was misplaced. Investigators at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor found that among individuals who died by suicide, having a mental health disorder or a job problem was significantly associated with being a physician. They also found that physicians who died by suicide were much more likely than their non-physician counterparts to have antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates, but not antidepressants, present on toxicology testing. "This [study] paints a more detailed picture of external events and risk factors in a physician's life before a suicide, rather than just looking at a death certificate," lead author Katherine J. Gold, MD, MSW, said in a statement. The study was published online November 5 in General Hospital Psychiatry. Need for Change Among suicide victims, having a known mental illness was mildly associated with higher odds of being a physician (odds ratio [OR], 1.34; confidence interval [CI], 1.01 -- 1.82; P = .045). However, among physicians, the greater likelihood of having a known mental illness was not matched by a greater likelihood of antidepressant therapy, the investigators note. Having a job problem that contributed to the suicide significantly predicted the likelihood of