A recent study published in the BMJ was the biggest divorce rate investigation amongst physicians. The study has shown that physicians are less likely to divorce that those in other occupations such as law, and also have a lower rate than other healthcare professionals such as nurses. The study also found that female physicians faced a higher likelihood of divorce than male counterparts, significantly due to their working longer hours.
Senior author, and Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor (Healthcare Policy) stated that it’s been speculated that doctors are more likely to be divorced than other professionals because of the long hours they keep and the stress associated with the job, but no large-scale study has ever been investigated whether that is true. We found that doctors have among the lowest rates of divorce among health care professionals. For those entering medicine who…
