


On the South Indian screen, was found dead in her home in Saligramam, Madras's tinseltown, hanging by a rope from the ceilingĪ suicide note, handwritten in Telugu, intimated On the morning of September 23 Smitha, uncrowned queen of glamour Heady affair with glitter and razzamatazz. Replace the name 'Marilyn Monroe' with 'Silk Smitha' and there, in a nutshell, you have the story of yet another South Indian actress who optedįor the eternal darkness of the Great Beyond in preference to a Who now goes into your presence without make up, without her pressĪgent, without her photographs or signing autographs, lonely asĪn astronaut facing the darkness of outer space. That was not her name (but you know her real name was that of the orphan rapedĪt nine, the shop girl who tried to kill herself when aged just sixteen),

“I think we’re just scratching the surface of what it’s done to us.Rediff On The Net, Movies:K P Sunil on Silk SmithaĪ ccept this girl called Marilyn Monroe throughout the world, though “Imagine seeing 10 times the death - and you took away that support system,” he explained. He wants to change the culture of hazing that’s been part of such programs but noted that COVID also had a huge impact on residents’ mental health - not only because of what they witnessed, but because they were more isolated.

Wei acknowledged how hard residency programs can be and described the one he went through as the most grueling experience of his life. “We’re trying to change hundreds of years of culture,” he said. Eric Wei, Health + Hospitals chief quality officer, said that is precisely why the agency launched its Helping Healers Heal program in 2018, which is designed to address on-the-job trauma. The medical culture is the exact opposite.”ĭr. “When a firefighter goes down, there’s a week of memorial services. “This really comes back to the culture of medicine,” she said. Susan Naranjo, director of the Committee of Interns and Residents union, which represents residents, said that sort of response is fairly typical.
