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Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."
tsuris the gamut of painful emotions—some real, some imagined, some self-inflicted.
Surgeon General David Satcher has made suicide prevention a top priority, and later this month a Senate health subcommittee, the chairman of which lost his father to a self-inflicted wound, will hold hearings into the issue.
Bill Clinton, despite his self-inflicted wounds, surely is.
Primary diagnoses for hospitalized poisonings are shown in Table 1. Suicide was not listed as an eventual primary cause of death among patients hospitalized for poisonings, nor was attempted suicide (E956, "Suicide and self-inflicted injuries by cutting and piercing instrument," or E958.