Here are 26 statistics on the percentage of physicians who are overweight to obese by specialty.
• Gastroenterology: 46 percent
• General surgery: 49 percent
• Family medicine: 48 percent
• Critical care: 46 percent
• Pulmonary medicine: 46 percent
• OB/GYN and women’s health: 45 percent
• Orthopedics: 44percent
• Anesthesiology: 43 percent
• Cardiology: 43 percent
• Internal medicine: 43 percent
• Emergency medicine: 42 percent
• Urology: 41 percent
• Psychiatry and mental health: 40 percent
• Neurology: 38 percent
• HIV/infectious diseases: 38 percent
• Pathology: 37 percent
• Oncology: 37 percent
• Radiology: 36 percent
• Pediatrics: 36 percent
• Nephrology: 36 percent
• Rheumatology: 34 percent
• Diabetes and endocrinology: 32 percent
• Allergy and clinical immunology: 31 percent
• Plastic surgery: 31 percent
• Ophthalmology: 28 percent
• Dermatology: 23 percent
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