New CDC study confirms soaring vet suicides, especially among women ATLANTA–– American female veterinarians are five times more likely to commit suicide as other American women, while American male veterinarians are “only” twice as likely to commit suicide as other American men, according to a newly published study of 36 years’ worth of veterinary death data. […]
Many human casualties in global shelter “culture war”
“Animal care-workers are pain-saturated people” Part II of a three-part series Part I: Taiwan shelter director suicide illustrates global crisis. Part III: Shelter culture war: “Heal. Then get up to fight the next battle.” Taiwanese animal shelter director and veterinarian Jian Zhicheng, who killed herself on May 12, 2016, was only the most recent […]
Shirley Koshi, DVM, 55
Suicide by drug overdose Shirley Koshi, DVM, 55, owner of the Gentle Hands veterinary clinic in Riverdale, New York, was found dead on February 16, 2014 of an apparent suicide by drug overdose, Barry Paddock and John Marzulli of the New York Daily News reported. “Koshi’s death, which is still under investigation by the NYPD […]