More than 12,000 physicians across 29 specialties were surveyed about coping with burnout and mental health in 2020.
Forty-two percent of physicians reported they were burned out last year. Here’s a breakdown by specialty:
Critical care: 51 percent
Rheumatology: 50 percent
Infectious diseases: 49 percent
Urology: 49 percent
Pulmonary medicine: 48 percent
Neurology: 47 percent
Family medicine: 47 percent
Internal medicine: 46 percent
Pediatrics: 45 percent
OB-GYN: 44 percent
Emergency medicine: 44 percent
Cardiology: 43 percent
Nephrology: 43 percent
Physical medicine and rehabilitation: 41 percent
Psychiatry: 41 percent
Anesthesiology: 40 percent
Gastroenterology: 40 percent
Allergy and immunology: 39 percent
Diabetes and endocrinology: 39 percent
Radiology: 36 percent
Public health and preventive medicine: 35 percent
Ophthalmology: 35 percent
General surgery: 35 percent
Pathology: 35 percent
Otolaryngology: 33 percent
Orthopedics: 33 percent
Oncology: 33 percent
Plastic surgery: 31 percent
Dermatology: 29 percent
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