Related commentaries – Omnipotence

Woe Against The Schemers – Isaiah 29:13 – 29:24

Physicians Who Commit Suicide

“Several years ago Time published some revealing statistics. It reported that every year 36 to 77 of every 100,000 physicians in our country commit suicide, three times the rate of the general population. Los Angeles psychiatrist Robert Liftman offers his explanation: They believe themselves to be omnipotent, semi-deities in a white smock. It’s not easy playing God. After trying it for a while and failing, the physicians have to admit they are failing. Omnipotence is beyond them, so they turn, the article says, to drugs, alcohol, psychotherapy, and eventually suicide.” (Dr. Leroy Lawson, A Strength Not My Own, p. 15).