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...William Garcia was a successful California anaesthesiologist when his life began to disintegrate at 40. He had a serious automobile accident, then marital problems surfaced, leading him and his wife to separation and divorce. Feeling depressed and guilty, Garcia turned to drugs. He checked into a psychiatric hospital in Arizona but stayed only six weeks before returning to California-and to drugs. Although he managed to keep practicing medicine, his professional reputation suffered. At 42, totally strung out on narcotics and with his career in ruins, Garcia checked into a motel and deliberately overdosed on heroin...
...Garcia's suicide attempt failed. But each year a disturbing number of physicians do manage to kill themselves. Accurate statistics are hard to come by because many suicides go unreported, but different experts estimate that from 36 to 77 of every 100,000 physicians die by their own hand every year, at least three times the rate for the population at large. Put another way, almost as many doctors commit suicide annually-upwards of 130-as graduate from Harvard Medical School. Of all professionals, doctors may be the most self-destructive.* Says Garcia, now on the staff...
...Garcia said that the Dorm Council, another student governing group, had assumed too large a role in campus affairs. The Dorm Council has assumed a campus-wide stature and has too much say in planning student events and activities--this means people living off-campus don't have enough say," Garcia said...
...School Council, which is supposed to be the student voice on campus, is "virtually invisible." Bonifacio B. Garcia, one of the meeting's organizers, said yesterday...
...elections are held too early and the representatives stay in too long," Garcia said, adding, "Some of them don't even show up for the meetings...