Doctors specializing in infectious diseases are the working class of doctors. Their vacation, as a rule, is less than that of doctors of other specialties. This is due, on the one hand, to the fact that some doctors specializing in infectious diseases volunteer during the holidays, on the other hand, their annual income is lower than that of doctors in many other specialties, and therefore doctors of diseases infectious should work harder to stay afloat. Over 30% of infectious disease specialists have annual vacations of 2 weeks or less (for comparison, this is the usual length of leave for 25% of physicians across the United States), and only 10% of doctors specializing in infectious diseases (the lowest percentage among all specialties) can afford a vacation that lasts more than 4 weeks per year (Figure 4).

Like other doctors, infectious disease doctors prefer to travel to other countries, beach vacations, cultural visits, car trips, and camping.

About 80% of infectious disease physicians said they were married at the time of the survey, which is a slightly lower percentage compared to other physicians who participated in the survey, in general, but it is significantly higher than the average adult American population. which is 51%. The frequency of divorces turned out to be at 5.6% - as, in general, among doctors of other specialties. Women doctors were more likely to be single than men (14% vs 5.6%).

How has marital status affected feelings of happiness? The greatest sense of happiness was noted by infectious disease doctors who remarried, and then by those who were not officially married but were living with a partner. In third place, the doctors married for the first time. The most infectious lone doctors were the least happy and, lastly, the divorced doctors.

Among infectious disease physicians, 58% were born in the United States, 10% moved to the United States as a child. The rest (32%) immigrated to the United States as adults. This indicator was higher compared to doctors in other specialties (26.3%). Most of the non-American infectious disease doctors have migrated from Asian countries.

What do infectious disease doctors do in their spare time (if, of course, they do)? The 5 best options for spending free time with doctors specializing in infectious diseases: reading, sports and physical activity, travel, cultural life and gastronomy / wine. Almost 23% of infectious disease specialists love to travel the vast expanses of the World Wide Web.

Specialists in the field of infectious diseases are very technologically advanced. Although older physicians generally use the media less often than their younger colleagues, older infectious disease physicians use the Internet and the media as often as their younger colleagues in other specialties. As for visitors to the Medscape medical portal, 60-year-old infectious disease doctors actively use Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Infectious disease physicians who were asked to rate their health on a 5-point scale (1 point - worst health, 5 points - best health imaginable), assessed their health at 4.1 points, with At the same time, doctors aged 41 to 50 were found to be healthier (4.21 points) and doctors aged 30 were slightly less healthy (3.97 points ).

A number of hospitals have actively implemented a policy of refusing to hire overweight health care professionals, and the following issue is actively debated in the United States: can a hospital apply: "Only thin doctors can work here "Of the 30 infectious disease specialists, 4% reported that they considered themselves overweight (typically 32.9% for all doctors) and 4% assumed they were obese ( 5.6% in the general population of doctors who participated in the survey).

It turned out that the older the doctors, the more they played sports (or lasted longer). This statement is entirely acceptable to medical specialists in infectious diseases. Almost 70% of physicians in infectious diseases aged 30 to 40 reported practicing sport once a week or less, 60% of physicians aged 51 to 60 and 76% of those aged 61 to 70 reported practicing a sport 2 and more than once a week. The most popular types of physical activity for infectious disease physicians are aerobics (73%) and strength exercises (22%), and 17% enjoy yoga.

A very small part (less than 1%) of infectious doctors smoke, 4.4% previously smoked. 69% of doctors report drinking alcohol and 31% do not drink at all (statistics comparable to national data in the United States).

Doctors were asked to answer the question "What would you do if you were diagnosed with an incurable disease"? Many answers have been suggested, but most doctors have chosen the following:

Infectious disease physicians were less ambivalent than physicians in other specialties, 23% of whom said they did not know what they would do if they were diagnosed with an incurable disease.

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