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Food & Thought: “Who Suicides, and Why?”

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (ET)

Philadelphia, PA

Food & Thought: “Who Suicides, and Why?”

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Suicide, rarely talked about, is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States.  There are some age cohorts in which it is one of the top three causes.

This talk will discuss our understanding of common factors associated with suicide, and factors that are unique to certain age, religious, socioeconomic, and ethnic groups.  We will also consider why people commit suicide, risk factors, problems of prediction, general preventive and protective mechanisms, and the possibility of treating actively suicidal people.
 
In this talk, Dr. Wohlreich will try to make this formerly taboo topic more approachable and understandable.

Speaker: George M. Wohlreich, MD, FCPP, Director & CEO, The Thomas W. Langfitt Chair, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia; staff psychiatrist at Pennsylvania Hospital and a Professor of Psychiatry (Adjunct) at the University of  Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Temple University School of Medicine.

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The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (ET)


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