OpinionAugust 26, 2022
Doctors Need to Learn to Talk about Suicide
Medical schools have neglected suicide, one of the leading causes of death. Teaching specific skills, including empathy, can help doctors save lives
Stories by Leonard M. Gralnik
Leonard M. Gralnik received his Ph.D. and M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He completed residency and fellowship training in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. He is board-certified in general psychiatry and in child and adolescent psychiatry. Gralnik is currently an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral health, director of the psychiatry clerkship and chief of psychiatry education at Florida International University's (FIU's) Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. He is also the senior medical director of the FIU Health Psychiatry Faculty Group Practice. He is a co-author, with Douglas Flemons, of a book on suicide assessment, Relational Suicide Assessment: Risks, Resources and Possibilities for Safety (Norton Professional Books, 2013).