Psychologists and Divorce

Being a psychiatrist can be hard on a marriage. That’s the result of a study that followed doctors, who graduated from Hopkins School of Medicine between 1948 and 1964. It reported that surgeons divorced 33 percent of the time, and pediatricians filed to end their marriages at a rate of 22 percent. Psychiatrists in the study didn’t do so well. More than 50 percent dissolved their marriages