[Are physicians also sick? Results of a survey carried out in French-speaking Switzerland and Tessin].

The results are presented of a study among 466 physicians in French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland concerning their own health. It emerged that 77.7% of the physicians had had at least one disease during the year studied; in 50% of cases the morbidity was linked to stress and emotivity. Cardiovascular pathology was significantly higher than in the average population. The results reveal striking differences between the different categories of physicians: hospital doctors had more cardiovascular diseases and fewer infectious and pulmonary diseases than physicians running a private practice. Psychiatrists have a higher morbidity rate than the average. General practitioners, psychiatrists and surgeons appear to be especially exposed to stress and emotivity. Pediatricians suffer less from this group of diseases but present a morbidity correlated with that seen in practice, suggesting transmission from patient to doctor.