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Anesthesiologists
Cardiologists
Emergency physicians
Family physicians
General internists
General surgeons
Internal medicine subspecialists
Obstetricians and gynecologists
Orthopedists
Other
Pediatricians
Psychiatrists
Radiologists
Surgical subspecialists
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General
surgeons
Psychiatrists
Emergency physicians
Other
General internists
Orthopedists
Family
physicians
Cardiologists
Radiologists
Obstetricians
and gynecologists
Pediatricians
Anesthesiologists
Surgical subspecialists
Internal medicine
subspecialists
5%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
35%
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Doctors on the road
Which specialties are caught speeding most often?
Interactive
The authors have analysed
which physician specialties
have a greater ‘need for
speed.’ They used data on all
speeding tickets in Florida
from 2004 to 2017, linked
to publicly available data on
physician characteristics.
Use the buttons below to
find out which specialty:
Need for speed
DRIVES
FASTEST
GETS MOST
TICKETS
IS MOST
EXTREME
DRIVES MOST
LUXURY CARS
GETS OFF
LIGHTLY
40%
20%
0%
10%
30%
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Average speed above limit (miles per hour)
Proportion of tickets issued to each specialty
Adjusted proportion of drivers ticketed at least 20mph above limit
Adjusted proportion of drivers ticketed in a luxury car
Adjusted proportion of drivers given discounted speeding tickets by an officer