The patients arrive by night or in broad daylight, alive and
sometimes dead. A record surge of suicides in troubled Venezuela is wearing
down doctors who work at the university hospital in the Andean state of Merida.
People who have tried to kill themselves arrive at an uncertain rhythm that
breeds dread in the professionals who receive them. “We live between terror and
impotence,” said Ignacio Sandia, who heads the psychiatry department. “We
constantly think we can’t do what we should in the moment we’re able to, and
we’re terrified that patients commit suicide and there’s nothing we can do for
them.” More…
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