Physician specialties with the highest rate of suicidal thoughts, and the percentage of physicians who have experienced suicidal thoughts:
1. Otolaryngology: 13 percent
2. Psychiatry: 12 percent
3. Family medicine: 12 percent
4. Anesthesiology: 12 percent
5. Obstetrics and gynecology: 12 percent
6. Emergency medicine: 12 percent
7. Physical medicine and rehabilitation: 11 percent
8. Internal medicine: 11 percent
9. Pediatrics: 11 percent
10. Plastic surgery: 11 percent
11. Public health and preventive medicine: 11 percent
12. Allergy and immunology: 10 percent
13. General surgery: 10 percent
14. Neurology: 10 percent
15. Urology: 9 percent
16. Cardiology: 9 percent
17. Pathology: 8 percent
18. Infectious diseases: 8 percent
19. Gastroenterology: 8 percent
20. Endocrinology: 8 percent
21. Ophthalmology: 8 percent
22. Critical care: 8 percent
23. Dermatology: 7 percent
24. Radiology: 7 percent
25. Orthopedics: 7 percent
26. Nephrology: 7 percent
27. Oncology: 7 percent
28. Rheumatology: 5 percent
29. Pulmonary medicine: 4 percent
