Suicidal thoughts among physician specialties

ENTs are the physicians with the highest rate of those saying they had suicidal thoughts in the last year, according to Medscape’sPhysician Suicide Report 2023,” which surveyed more than 9,100 practicing physicians. 

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Here is a breakdown among respondents who said they have had suicidal thoughts, by specialty:

ENT: 13 percent

Psychiatry: 12 percent

Family medicine: 12 percent

Anesthesiology: 12 percent 

OB-GYN: 12 percent

Emergency medicine: 12 percent

Physical medicine: 11 percent

Internal medicine: 11 percent

Pediatrics: 11 percent

Plastic surgery: 11 percent

Public health: 11 percent

Allergy and immunology: 10 percent

General surgery: 10 percent

Neurology: 10 percent

Urology: 9 percent

Cardiology: 9 percent

Pathology: 8 percent

Infectious diseases: 8 percent

Gastroenterology: 8 percent

Diabetes/endocrinology: 8 percent

Ophthalmology: 8 percent

Critical care: 8 percent

Dermatology: 7 percent

Radiology: 7 percent

Orthopedics: 7 percent

Nephrology: 7 percent

Oncology: 7 percent

Rheumatology: 5 percent

Pulmonary medicine: 4 percent

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