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Percentage of U.S. physicians feeling burned out by specialty 2017

Percentage of physicians feeling burned out in the U.S. as of 2017, by specialty

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	Percentage of physicians
Emergency medicine	59%
Obstetricians/gynecologists	56%
Family medicine	55%
Internal medicine	55%
Infectious disease	55%
Rheumatology	54%
Plastic surgery	53%
Otalaryngology	53%
Critical care	53%
Cardiology	52%
Urology	52%
Neurology	51%
Pediatrics	51%
Anesthesiology	51%
Gastroenterology	50%
Nephrology	50%
Orthopedics	49%
Surgery	49%
Pulmonology	49%
Radiology	49%
Oncology	47%
Dermatology	46%
Diabetes/endocrinology	46%
Pathology	43%
Ophthalmology	43%
Allergy/immunology	43%
Psychiatry/mental health	42%

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This statistic shows the percentage of physicians feeling burned out in the United States, as of 2017, by specialty. According to the survey, the highest share of physicians feeling burned out was in emergency medicine.

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