Numbers of suicides and relative risks by specialty among senior doctors, 1979-1995
| Specialty |
Number of suicides | Years at risk |
Adjusted relative risks4-150
(95% confidence intervals) |
| General medicine | 4 | 77916 | Baseline |
| General practice | 84 | 451664 | 3.6 (1.3 to 9.9) |
| Anaesthetics | 13 | 38225 | 6.8 (2.2 to 20.8) |
| Psychiatry | 9 | 37411 | 4.8 (1.5 to 15.5) |
| Community health | 7 | 18872 | 8.0 (2.3 to 28.0) |
| Surgery | 6 | 55951 | 2.1 (0.6 to 7.3) |
| Radiology | 3 | 18757 | 3.2 (0.7 to 14.2) |
| Obstetrics and gynaecology | 2 | 15071 | 2.6 (0.5 to 14.2) |
| Public health | 2 | 8802 | 4.5 (0.8 to 24.4) |
| Pathology | 1 | 28598 | 0.7 (0.1 to 6.1) |
| Radiotherapy | 1 | 3895 | 5.0 (0.6 to 45.1) |
| Accident and emergency | 0 | 5483 | 0 |
↵4-150 Adjusted for time period and sex.