The victims
Only 15 months separated the suicides of 3 University of Manitoba residents, the Winnipeg Free Press reports.
The most recent death, on Jan. 6, 1997, involved a male resident found dead of a drug overdose in a washroom in the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) in Winnipeg. Aged 28 and married, he was months away from completing a 5-year residency as an anesthetist.
A little over a year earlier, in November 1995, a 26-year-old woman who was a first-year resident in obstetrics died following a drug overdose. She too was found in a washroom in the HSC.
A month before that, a 39-year-old man who had just completed his residency in psychiatry shot himself. He was married.
The Free Press says there was also a suicide in the HSC in 1988, when a female resident who had switched specialties injected herself with a lethal dose of potassium.
