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Introduction. Although disruptive for functioning at work and well-being personality disorders often remain undiagnosed. Revealing risk groups is especially important in those working under stress like communicating with severe ill patients. Objectives. The aim was to reveal patterns of personality disorders related to well-being in clinicians and doctors working in laboratories. Methods. 180 doctors treating life-threatening illnesses (23.5% males, 84 clinicians and 96 lab workers) filled Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III (Millon et al., 2009), Big Five Questionnaire – 2 (Caprara et al., 2007), Satisfaction With Life Scale (Diener et al., 1985), Work Engagement, Boredom at Work Scales (Schaufeli, Salanova, 2014), Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach et al., 1997). Results. In both groups schizoid, avoidant, depressive, dependent, antisocial, aggressive, passive-aggressive and self-defeating personality patterns are related to burnout, boredom at work and dissatisfaction with life (r=.22-.60) while dynamism, emotional and impulse control correlate to lower risk (r=.24-.62). Histrionic and narcissistic patterns are associated with better well-being and lower burnout (r=.20-.60). Clinicians are more dominant, less scrupulous, demonstrate more histrionic and narcissistic and less avoidant, paranoid, schizotypal, self-defeating traits (F=4.14-11.47, p<.05, η2=.02-.06). Comparisons of correlations indicate that dynamism, perseverance, low schizoid traits are more important for well-being of lab workers while compulsive traits - in clinicians (p<.05). Conclusions. Personality patterns predicting poor well-being are close in clinicians and lab workers but most of them are more prominent in lab workers indicating that both groups are targets for prevention programs.  Research is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 17-06-00849.