Neurologists face the highest levels of distress when it comes to their personal well-being, according to the 2024 to 2025 healthcare well-being index, a burnout and benchmarking survey developed at the Mayo Clinic a decade ago.
The 2024 to 2025 report surveyed a total of 97,000 advanced practice providers, dentists, employees, medical students, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, residents and fellows.
Among these healthcare workers, the survey assessed 22,914 physicians across 19 specialties.
Here are the most “distressed” physician specialties in 2024 and 2025, based on the percentage of specialists who reported a distressed state of well-being when surveyed:
- Neurology: 34%
- Emergency medicine: 30%
- Obstetrics and gynecology: 30%
- Pathology: 30%
- Radiology: 29%
- Other: 28%
- Hospice and palliative care: 28%
- Surgery: 28%
- Lab medicine and pathology: 28%
- Family medicine: 26%
- Internal medicine: 25%
- Psychiatry: 24%
- Pediatrics: 22%
- Preventative, occupational and environmental medicine: 22%
- Ophthalmology: 21%
- Anesthesiology: 21%
- Podiatry: 19%
- Dermatology: 18%
- Radiation oncology: 17%
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation: 13%
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