Show Daily Kor Health tD Service Average r Doctor Lives to 64 Despite Unusual r B By DR MORRIS Editor Journal of or the American I Medical Med Mcd- ical leal Association J and of the Health Magazine l Each year about bout doctors die In the United States The doctors doctor's life me brin brings s him unusual hazards from which other people do not riot suffer The average averle age at nt death of oC the doctor was about 64 years although many doctors live Jive longer For in instance instance In- In stance two doctors lived to be 09 99 years old and 30 lived to be over 90 On the oth other r hand 23 doctors died under the age of 30 30 and 51 died be between between be- be tween 30 and 35 As with others many doctors died from Irom automobile accidents Seventy-one Seventy thus terminated terminated their existence in 1931 as compared corn com pared with 66 in 1930 Doctors also died from Crom f falls lIs from drowning from airplane accidents accident from gunshot wounds from froni illuminating illuminating gas and from irom overdoses of medicine I Sixty four doctors committed suicide sui sul- sul- sul cide in 1031 which was two less e s than thanin thanin I in 1930 The economic depression I might have been bec expected to MI more deaths since doctors doctor SUM especially especially at such periods period beca people delay paying doctor bills than any other type of oC bills they inn more ovejAs As Is b also the case with thi the T 1 of the public heart disease pro p more deaths than any cause One reason heart discs j is' is an increasing cause of death is that people are nrc living longer than they used to The physician is constantly f in p con tact with Infection and he Is in a 11 w wa even cven a menace to the children i In h hh J own family through the In 1 that he ma may bring in ru e eIll in institutions for th and In prisons arc are frequently to attack by their patients The demands on the the physician lead eyesight ot of 1 frequently to vi viz vb- ual disturbance The Thc X-ray X WOrker is sometimes mes a martyr to his hL 1 lion tion Above all ph physicians are fl exp to severe weather cather and in many many In bf stances pneumonia rheumatic tion and similar diseases result the combination of or J infection and ex e The path of the do docS does not always lead in pleasant w places I il |