Hours/Pay (-logists/Surgeons)

[bluedevilmike]

<p>Very old data below.</p>

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Over 30 years of follow-up, the divorce rate was 51 percent for psychiatrists, 33 percent for surgeons, 24 percent for internists, 22 percent for pediatricians and pathologists, and 31 percent for other specialties. The overall divorce rate was 29 percent after three decades of follow-up and 32 percent after nearly four decades of follow-up.</p>

<p>Physicians who married before medical school graduation had a higher divorce rate than those who waited until after graduation (33 percent versus 23 percent). . . . Female physicians had a higher divorce rate (37 percent) than their male colleagues (28 percent).

[Hopkins</a> Medicine: Physician Divorce Rate May Be Linked to Specialty Choice](<a href=“http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1997/MARCH/199703.HTM]Hopkins”>http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1997/MARCH/199703.HTM)</p>

<p>For comparison’s sake:

for college graduates, the divorce rate in the first 10 years of marriage has plummeted to just over 16 percent of those married between 1990 and 1994 from 27 percent of those married between 1975 and 1979.

<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19divo.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;