statistic medical professional suffering from a disease

Since most physicians I know are hypochondriacs, Idsay that the statistical occurence would be the same as for the general population but the chances of an earlier detection are increased.
Didnt Dr Debakey die of chronic cardiomyopathy?
I believe that research oncologists who specialize in environmental cancers can have slightly higher OCCURENCES of these cancers.

Once when I was an immunology lab tech I had a bad week, with my serum, one of the controls, coming out quite positive. Natch that was a week of non-reports and a lot of phone calls because of the change and strange reading, but I still zoomed into despond (waves at Izzie, who has dealt with all of this for real). We always eagle eyed our controls, as various matters can affect test results. That had something to do with pH or maybe the conjugate. The md's ordered a test a second time back then in any case. Still, I stared hard and long at every slide. No one ever rushed me.

I've read, though, of real instances wherein someone diagnosed their own problem -- probably in some NYer article. Talk about a tough moment.

Interns were famously hypochondriacal..
back then, anyway.

Trouble was, sometimes it was true. I remember an ER guy who developed testicular ca.

An Oncologist from my hospital just passed away from cancer. We placed his chemotherapy port within days of his own patients receiving ports.

Ay yi yi..

Well, in a can you beat this thing, not that I want to, but it's true - in my time at a fairly prominant hospital, the chief of staff died in surgery with a (I'm blanking, but a simple nasal procedure.)

No one's immune, but interns...

I think those in the medical community tend to be more aware of low-grade or sub-acute symptoms (read hypochondria if you wish) and can test themselves accordingly. When I worked in the lab I noticed that lab techs knew just about everything about themselves from a diagnostic aspect. I self-diagnosed hypoglycemia years ago. When I became pregnant for the first time and refused a GTT to test for prenatal diabetes because it would put me on the floor my obgyn raised her eyes until I explained my history and then rewrote the orders.

Yes, medical professionals probably have a higher incidence of diagnosis but only because they are more aware of the nuances.

Agreed.
Also add some beginning fright levels.

But, to answer your question, tali, I've no idea.

I would have thought they had far less chance of suffering from their specialist area of medicine/disease- not because of prior medical knowledge - but rather that it would be a freakish coincidence - although this is my non scientific subjective view.