Does medicine run in families? Polyakova and colleagues have explored data from Swedish educational records, to see whether physicians had relatives that also trained as medical professionals. They also analysed data from lawyers and their families to see if the pattern would also hold true for another professional occupation.
British Medical Journal
Does Medicine Run in the Family—Evidence from Three Generations of Physicians in Sweden: Retrospective Observational Study
Journal Article
Reference
Polyakova, Maria, Petra Persson, Katja Hofmann and Anupam B. Jena (2020). “Does Medicine Run in the Family—Evidence from Three Generations of Physicians in Sweden: Retrospective Observational Study”. British Medical Journal 371(8273), 1–5. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4453
Polyakova, Maria, Petra Persson, Katja Hofmann and Anupam B. Jena (2020). “Does Medicine Run in the Family—Evidence from Three Generations of Physicians in Sweden: Retrospective Observational Study”. British Medical Journal 371(8273), 1–5. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4453
Authors
Maria Polyakova,
Petra Persson, Katja Hofmann,
Anupam B. Jena