Surgeons face higher death risk than other docs

Axios - Surgeons are 56% likelier to die than other doctors, likely due to longer work hours, the high-stress environment and because of workplace violence, a study of death certificate data in JAMA Surgery found.

While doctors have the benefit of health knowledge and often have ample means, surgeons are much more vulnerable to car crashes — possibly due to long hours at work — and are likelier to die from hypertension or assault than their medical colleagues....

Motor vehicle collisions were the fourth-leading cause of death among surgeons but ninth in all other occupation groups.  

• The researchers suggest it may support evidence that "hazardous driving events associated with extended work hours are especially pronounced among surgeons."