From the 2013 Medscape survey on physician burnout, here is a sampling of the highest and lowest physician burnout rates by specialty: Highest rate of physician burnout: Emergency medicine (51%) Critical care (50%) Family medicine (43%) Lowest rate of physician burnout: Pathology (32%) Psychiatry (33%) (Tied) Ophthalmology (35%) Pediatrics (35%) Rheumatology (35%) ...