Suicide rates among American physicians have been at all time highs since 2020 and continues.

Medscape has released their Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2023, ‘I Cry and No One Cares,’ based on survey responses from more than 9,100 physicians across 29 specialties, which were collected between June and October 2022. At least one third of respondents in all specialties said they were burned out. 

Here’s how each specialty reveals: 

1. Emergency medicine — 65 percent of physicians reported burnout

2. Internal medicine — 60 percent

3. Pediatrics — 59 percent

4. Obstetrics and gynecology — 58 percent

Infectious diseases — 58 percent

5. Family medicine — 57 percent

6. Neurology — 55 percent
Critical care — 55 percent
Anesthesiology — 55 percent

7. Pulmonary medicine — 54 percent
Radiology — 54 percent

8. Oncology — 52 percent
Gastroenterology — 52 percent

9. General surgery — 51 percent
Diabetes and endocrinology — 51 percent

10. Rheumatology — 50 percent

11. Otolaryngology — 49 percent
Allergy and immunology — 49 percent
Dermatology — 49 percent

12. Ophthalmology — 48 percent

13. Physical medicine and rehabilitation — 47 percent
Psychiatry — 47 percent
Urology — 47 percent

14. Plastic surgery — 46 percent

15. Orthopedics — 45 percent

16. Nephrology — 44 percent

17. Cardiology — 43 percent

18. Pathology — 39 percent

19. Public health and preventive medicine — 37 percent

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