Mortality in U.S. Physicians Likely to Perform Fluoroscopy-guided Interventional Procedures Compared with Psychiatrists, 1979 to 2008

In the first nationwide follow-up of physicians who perform fluoroscopy-guided interventional procedures, there was no excess mortality (except leukemia, based on small numbers, in early medical school graduates), but confirmation is needed in studies with individual doses and work histories, lifestyle and other explanatory factors, and extended follow-up.