Suicide Blip

[Bjorn, Pret]

What comprises "worse" winter weather gets pretty subjective.  Mainers
are generally inclined to LIKE lots of snow.  That's why there's not
many of them.

In any event, I think our numbers would be far too small to allow
anything beyond guessing when it comes to causes.  If twenty other
trauma centers have noticed the same thing, then we can begin to
speculate.

Pret



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[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Andrew J Bowman
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Suicide Blip


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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