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Obituary 313th troop carrier5/25/2023 ![]() Doctors on average have an older age at death than the general U.K. Cancer was the most common cause of death and did not differ by specialty. ResultsÄata were extracted from 8156 obituaries. Obituaries published in the British Medical Journal between January 1997 and August 2019 were scraped and analysed for differences in age and cause of death and also relative survival analysis compared to the general U.K. Publicly available electronic records were obtained by web scraping and analysed with natural language processing algorithms. ![]() Technological advances now allow the entire catalogue of obituaries to be interrogated, which allows exploration of the relationship between medical specialty, age at death and cause of death in doctors. Previous studies have found emergency medicine physicians have a reduced life expectancy compared to other doctors, using small subsets of data from the obituary section of the British Medical Journal.
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