Mortality of lawyers in the United States
A study recently published in JAMA Surgery and conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, included 1,080,298 deaths in the United States in 2023. The age- and sex-adjusted mortality rate was higher among surgeons (355.3 deaths per 100,000) compared with no surgeon physicians (228.4), representing a 56% higher risk (MRR = 1.56). Surgeons had mortality rates like lawyers, engineers, and scientists (404.5; MRR = 0.88) and substantially lower than all other workers (632.5; MRR = 0.56).
In the lawyers, engineers, and scientists group, the most frequent causes of death were: cancer, heart disease, accidental deaths, stroke, and suicide. Across all occupational groups, neoplasms and heart disease ranked highest, but surgeons showed higher cancer mortality (193.2 vs 87.5 in no surgeon physicians) and ranked higher for causes such as motor vehicle collisions, hypertension, and assault.
This study highlights how profession impacts not only overall mortality but also the leading causes of death
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