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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rhering who wrote (7675)	10/22/2003 5:32:10 PM
From: Fred Levine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

RE>>Beware, dentists may have high margins, but quality of life may be an issue, they historically have had the highest suicide rate of all the professions.<< Some years ago, I tried to get the data on this oft-quoted "fact". Suicide rates among professionals are quite unreliable, but dentists are not high. The best I could get was that one president of the dental society, in an address about the stresses of his profession, stated this. The data did not back him up. The highest rates tended, but varied, to be among physicians, especially female physicians, and usually among female psychiatrists. My own theory is that the workload of being in a difficult profession and having conflicting time responsibilities as a mother are very intense. In addition, medical students have unrealistically high expectations about job satisfaction. fred PS - I wish I had something to contribute about AMAT, which seems to be getting hammered after-hours.