Suicide Blip

[Andrew J Bowman]

How has the Winter weather been in Maine this year? Any worse than usual?

Andrew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bjorn, Pret" <pbjorn at emh.org>
To: "Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:34 AM
Subject: Suicide Blip


Our trauma service has seen a disturbing increase in suicides and
suicide attempts over the past couple of months.  We're rural, so both
the numerators and denominators are small; but hear me out:  for January
and February, we have six registered self-inflicted major traumas.
That's half again as many for all of '07, and six times the total for
Jan/Feb '06 and '07 combined.  It's a blip; but it's a hell of a blip.  
 
Is anyone else seeing the same?
 
Pret Bjorn, RN
Bangor, ME USA
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