what is the avg life span of a doctor?...considering........?

Question

they always are working around sick people and places (and not immediately knowing whats wrong) and not to mention med resistand bugs.

Answer 1

Most of the studies, (serious ones) performed on the subject by the Stockholm professional survival project, among others, (Arizona predictive scale for statistics in mortality, and several insurance companies), that includes almost all kinds of professions, together with the adjstment for weight, habitus, gender, and factors like place of living, smoking, drinking alcohol and amount, numbers of sleep hours etc.
When adjusted by Bonfarell equations (difference of percent in the negative square root of the crude results) in order to avoid comparison bias, it was found that
a).- Average life of doctors in general in Europe and North America, does not differ from the rest of normal population.
As correctly stated before, it goes matematically, with the socioeconomical status of the person,
b).- As expected, most of the female doctors, lived 2,3% above the person of the same socioeconomic status, and female gender, and 11% more than male doctors, in similar conditions..(however that happens too, in normal population)
The difference of survival, was only given by the frequency of suicide among several doctors, varying with speciality, anesthesiologists being in first place, and intensivists in second....
Oddly enough, surgeons had the lowest suicide mortality of the lot, as confirmed lately by newer studies.....
Resident doctors, are more suicide and accident prone, due to excessive stress, lack of sleep hours, etc...
Internal medicine post graduate student, are more at risk-.---

Answer 2

I'm a med student and heard something recently about doctors having a shorter life span- I think because of stress and lifestyle issues. However, I tried to look it up and the only articles I could find easily were paid access. If you seriously want to know, look somewhere like JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. You should be able to find it in a library.

Answer 3

reserach had shown the those in a high socioeconomic status tend on average to live longer than those that are middle class or poor. This is due to having more money and knowledge of various illnessess. So the average lifespan of a doctor may be a little over the average life span of us normal men and women. Unless ther is foul play or recreational drug use, or the hand of god coming down to intervene and take their life.

Answer 4

The average lifespan of a cockatiel is 12 to 15 years. But they have been known to live to 20 years, some even to 30.

Answer 5

Health is mental and physical....you are not likely to catch infections if you are healthy physically and have good nutrition and access to medical care( most doctors have this) The mental health of doctors is always at risk though because of lack of sleep, stress, high expectations and sometimes alcohol dependence. So they are prone to suicide and like Vets who always have to put animals down when they cannot help them anaesthetists/intensivists who deal with very ill dying patients are prone to suicide. Its the little things like thanking doctors for doing their best which make so much of a difference.

Answer 6

Hello altpro9,

Interesting question.

I think you will find that a Doctor has as average a lifespan as the rest of us.

Although as you say they are in contact with sick and infectious people a lot of the time, they are also aware of what to do in order to protect themselves from infection.

Of course as in everything, there are exceptions.

Having said that, the doctors I tend to see seem in a lot of cases to be older than Methuselah (LoL).

John
(Poseidon)

Answer 7

I don't think their life expectancy is compromised. The medical profession takes adequate precautions to reduce the chance of disease transmission. They use "universal precautions" for every patient, when they come in contact with anything that is presumed to potentially have disease causing pathogens (hand-washing, gloves, etc.). This is because they might not know what is wrong and they assume that all people have the potential to carry disease. For more contagious conditions like tuberculosis, they use "airborne precautions" (mask). Another type is droplet precautions.

Answer 8

55-59 years in India