Better mental health screenings for pilots are being called for following the crash after last month’s Germanwings plane crash, reports The Atlantic.
But mental health treatment is also a concern in other fields, such as medicine, dentistry and law.
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“They have trained for years, passed tough exams, been licensed and deemed fit by a stringent set of regulations; they’re needed at their best. Yet many of these high-responsibility, high-risk career fields have high rates of suicide,” according to the report.
That means many employees may still show up at work and be suffering from a mental illness.
Read more on The Atlantic website.
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