50% psychiatrists divorced?
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Anonymous
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This is really puzzling. If you count unhappy marriages not ending in divorce, percentage of failed marriages here is probably much higher. Why?
“the highest divorce rates at 30 years observed among psychiatrists (50%)” http://unmhospitalist.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/65758902/shanafelt_medmarriage.pdf |
Anonymous
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Isnt 50% pretty average for a divorce rate?
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Anonymous
No, especially not amongst people with a lot of education. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| Where is this quote? Only see data on physicians, not psychiatrists |
Anonymous
| They are usually as crazy as their patients... |
Anonymous
| Meds on the side. |
Anonymous
| Its somewhere near 26% in college educated individuals so this is double? |
Anonymous
Its right there on 1st page. “ One prospective cohort study of more than 1000 married physicians found a 29% cumulative incidence of divorce among physicians after 30 years of follow-up.7 Specialty choice was associated with divorce in this cohort, with the highest divorce rates at 30 years observed among psychiatrists (50%) and surgeons (33%)” |
Anonymous
| It’s not really surprising. People go into psychiatry often because of some personal or childhood traumatic experience and that same set of issues can evolve into the source of their divorce. Anyone who thinks psychiatrists have some kind of advantage in mental health is extremely naive. |
Anonymous
| Psychiatry residency doesn’t have as many takers so many go there for lack of better options, not necessarily to cure their personal trauma. |
Anonymous
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She had an affair with another man, I took her back--and she still left me. Ah, Lilith. I have only the gray skies of Seattle to console me.
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Anonymous
| I hope latest numbers are relatively better. |
Anonymous
| I don't see it as a negative. They probably recognize abuse and unhealthy behavior more than the average person, and they don't settle for it. When I think about the marriages around me, there are verrrrry few I'd ever want to be part of. |
Anonymous
| Internal medicine and pediatrics has 22% divorce rate so less than the average. |