The Hidden Cost of the OR A July 30 JAMA Surgery study analyzing 2023 U.S. National Vital Statistics data found that surgeons are 56% more likely to die than physicians in other specialties. Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital reviewed over 1 million adult deaths and compared mortality by occupation. Surgeons’ mortality rate: 355.3 per 100,000 while Nonsurgeon physicians: 288.4 per 100,000 Why the higher risk? The study sugges