Is the divorce rate higher among residents, physicians, and medical students?

[moto_za]

What is the divorce rate among medical professionals or students?

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[LizzyM]

higher than what?

 

[moto_za]

Compared to the average population.

 

[schrizto]

are you talking about the rate between two physicians or with only one physician in the relationship or both?

 

[randombetch]

http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2006/03_15/3_physicians_life02_05.html

A 1999 survey of US docs found 22% of male physicians were married to another working physician. A 2002 study looking at dual physician marriages found they have a relatively low divorce rate of 11%. "They're a happily married cohort," says Dr Sotile. "They're more compassionate about the passion for the career — they understand the calling because they share it."

Yay, doctor couples are more likely to last and are richer. I got to get me a dermatologist wife.

 

[cbrons]

What is the divorce rate among medical professionals or students?

Probably likely to achieve parity with that of police officers in the near future.

 

[searun]

I have not seen a definitive study. Are doctors better at being married than other people in high stress demanding professions. Probably not. But they are probably not worse, either. Professions that are demanding and require long hours away from home, are tough on marriages.

But there are countless examples of physicians with stable marriages and kids who do great. So go for it. And make it work for you!

 

[libraryismyhome]

so, marrying another doctor would result in much lower divorce rate. This sounds reasonable. I mean hypothetically, if your future wife is not a doc then she wouldn't be able to understand you as much as a doctor wife.