10 specialties with the most severely burned out physicians

Nephrologists experience burnout that is more severe as compared to physicians in other specialties, according to the Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report 2015.

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For the survey, burned out physicians were asked to rate the severity of their burnout from 1 (does not interfere with my life) to 7 (so severe that I’m thinking of leaving medicine).

 

•    Nephrology — 4.3
•    Cardiology — 4.29
•    Plastic surgery — 4.28
•    Urology — 4.24
•    Dermatology — 4.21
•    OB-GYN/Women’s Health —4.18
•    Internal medicine —4.18
•    Family medicine — 4.17
•    General surgery — 4.13
•    Diabetes/endocrinology — 4.12

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